Investec's fund tracks an index maintained by Internet.com, a Web publishing company.
The new-orders indexes are one of the components of the factory index maintained by the Institute of Supply Management in the United States and by other organizations around the globe.
Last year was dismal for hedge fund performance, according to an index maintained by Eurekahedge, an independent information firm that specializes in hedge fund data.
The breach was given an 8.8 out of 10 rating of seriousness in a global index maintained by a security company, with a score above 9 considered "catastrophic".
Through November of that year, the average global hedge fund investor earned just 2.6 percent, according to the HFRX global index maintained by Hedge Fund Research.
The YouthfulCities index maintains it is less affordable than Tokyo, but that appears to be because of higher average costs when dining out, going to the cinema and paying for standing taxi fares.
Another national index, maintained by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, showed a smaller decline in prices in 2011, and says prices hit bottom last February, before rising a little late in the year.
BLOOMBERG NEWS Hedge Funds End 2011 on a Very Bad Note | Last year was dismal for hedge funds, according to an index maintained by Eurekahedge, an independent research firm that specializes in hedge fund data.
In any event, compared with 1998, gross domestic product in Norway grew by only 1.5%, the consumer price index maintained a 2.5% growth rate, and private and public consumption grew markedly less than in 1998.
And Fortune's other new offering, based on its 45-year-old Fortune 500 annual ranking of large companies, will no doubt be measured against the tens of billions of investment fund dollars pegged to the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, maintained by McGraw-Hill, publisher of Business Week.
