The game is designed to replicate the performance of Steve Reich's minimalist composition, "Clapping Music" (1972), where two performers maintain the same 8-note rhythm spanning over a 12-quaver bar.
The Vanguard Developed Markets Index fund combines shares in its Europe and Pacific funds in appropriate measures to replicate the performance of the MSCI Europe, Australasia and Far East, or EAFE, index.
The Ensemble Basiani improvises and tunes its songs in traditional ways, replicating the performance styles heard on old recordings.
Those funds include iShares FTSE Nareit Residential Index, iShares FTSE Nareit Industrial/Office Index and SPDR S.& P. Homebuilders, which tries to replicate the performance of the S.& P. Homebuilders Select Industry Index.
You also need to choose between index funds that are low-cost and aim to replicate the performance of an index such as the FTSE 100.
While research suggests that compact fluorescent technology has improved in the last decade, the bulbs do not replicate the performance of incandescents, the bulbs to which most people are accustomed.
An exchange-traded fund, SPDR S.& P. Homebuilders, which tries to replicate the performance of all publicly traded home building companies, was up about 8percentt for 2009 as of Thursday.
Financial advisers warn that a cap on charges will force pension schemes to switch to indexation – simply replicating the performance of an index such as the FTSE100 – rather than actively managed stock picking.
Mr. Cliburn seldom performs these days, and when he does, it is almost always in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, more or less replicating the performance that established his career overnight at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1968.
You could reduce the odds of backing a loser by investing in a tracker fund, such as the HSBC FTSE All Share Index, which simply replicates the performance of the wider stock market.
