Sentence examples for favour of index from inspiring English sources

Indeed, one does not need the theory to be in favour of index funds; it is all a matter of averages.

Not because I am trying to short the dollar; as a student of efficient market theory, I eschew such strategies in favour of index funds.

But Mr Kloppers derides this system as "awful" and has been intent on dismantling the annual benchmark-price negotiations in favour of an index linked to the spot price, which had, until recently, outstripped benchmark prices for several years.

At a time when ever more investors are shunning active management altogether in favour of cheaper index funds, the end of Mr Gross's reign at PIMCO may also mark the end of the era of the superstar fund-manager that he personified.(Photo credit: Reuters).

That is, in order to decide in favour of, the index i must appear at least two times after the detection.

Closer to home, when the National Party announced the scrapping of the school decile system in favour of a "risk index" for funding, the age of mothers was named as one of the key factors the new system would take into account.

Johnston wants this scrapped in favour of the lower consumer prices index (CPI), which is not due to replace RPI until 2020.

A measure of inflation used in pay bargaining and to calculate some tax thresholds should be scrapped in favour of a revised consumer prices index that includes housing costs (CPIH).

Worse still, the trend is towards ghettoisation.The other camp favours the index of segregation, which measures how the members of an ethnic group are distributed.

Nonetheless, the study conducted by Clark and colleagues, albeit with a different design from ours, provided positive indices in favour of such an approach.

From March next year, statisticians will drop their focus on the consumer prices index (CPI) in favour of CPIH, which seeks to measure the housing costs of owner-occupiers.