Sentence examples for blended index from inspiring English sources

And while passive investors have had to resign themselves to being essentially mediocre, an interesting new study suggests that a well constructed blended index fund (such as the Dow Jones US Total Market I-share in the accompanying table on page 40) may actually beat the market.

Classic demographic ratios and indices such as sex ratios, age ratios, Whipple's index and Myers' blended index are the several methods used for the appraisal of age-sex data for errors in age misreporting and digit preference or avoidance (Shryock et al. 1976; Moultrie et al. 2013; Spoorenberg 2007).

Similarly, there was little evidence of age heaping with a Myers' blended index of 11.9.

The Myer's blended index is one such measure and examines concentration on terminal digits resulting in a score between 0 (no heaping) and 90 (all ages reported with same terminal digit).

The Myer's Blended index was 1.67 in 2008 and 1.62 in 2013, indicating that in both years there was no significant difference between the sampled age distribution and the overall age distribution of Shaanxi Province (i.e. non-existence of age preference in the survey) [ 25].

According to Spoorenberg (2007), Whipple's index is that the extent of digit preference is meant for terminal digits 0 and 5. Age heaping at any age other than 0 or 5 may occur which can be detected using Myers' blended index.

The Eurostoxx 600, a blended composite index of European indices, is down 4.43 per cent so far this month after investors baulked at Mr Draghi's decision to extend bond-buying by six months to March 2017  – instead of to September 2017 as hoped – and failed to raise the rate of purchases from €60bn (£44bn) a month.

For balanced funds, we use a blended 50/50 index of the Merrill index combined with the S&P 500.

For global stock funds we use a blended 50/50 index of the S&P 500 and EAFE indexes.

In blended aggregate, shape index was increased as the blending ratio of SS was increased.

Bulk density and shape index of blended aggregate were decreased as the blending ratio of CS increased.