The average chief executive of a company listed on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock indearnedned $15.06 million in 2006, according to the Corporate Library, an independent research firm.
Dana, which last year was the worst performer in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock indearnsarns 85percentt of its revenue from automotive products.
In the same year American firms in the S&P Industrials index earned an ROE of 22.4%.ROE woesYet change is under way.
An analysis by MSCI, which manages global indexes, found that a global fossil fuel-free index earned an average return of 13% a year since 2010, better than the 11.8% annual return earned by a conventional index.
Or instead of a cap, you simply won't be allowed to collect more than half or two-thirds of whatever the index earns, even during a raging bull market.
There might be an annual cap that keeps you from getting credit for more than, say, an 8percentt rise in the S.& P. 500, even if the index earns 15percentt in a given year.
Islamic index earned inferior returns as compared to Green index (socially responsible index).
An investment of $5,000 in an index fund, earning about 10percentt a year since 1975, would have grown to $50,000 or so by now.
According to the N.A.R.'s housing affordability index, families earning a median income of $62,141 needed to devote only 13.6 percent of that to housing in October.
