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• Best ETFs for Equal-Weighted Strategies

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 547
  The equal-weighted indexing strategy is a simple alternative to market-cap weighted indices and can be a good way to gain a tactical position within a portfolio. The equal weight strategy can be used in exchange traded funds and gives each stock the same weighting within the ...
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• Key trends in ETF investing for 2011 and predictions for 2012

  
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  Nizam Hamid, Deputy Head of Lyxor ETFs highlighted the key trends in ETF investing for 2011 and gave his outlook for 2012 at the ETF & Indexing Investments conference in October. His key trends for ETF investments were: Regulators have provided a focus on risk through different means Questions about ...
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• Keyword Density is dead…enter “Thing Density”

  
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  As we’ve all heard, Google announced the Knowledge Graph this past Wednesday, in their blog post:  Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings   and the most beautiful thing about this post is that it yet another confirmation of what a lot of us SEO nerds already knew. The concept of LSI/LSA (Latent ...
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• We Need to Find Ways to Help Buy-and-Holders Save Face

  
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  Valuation-Informed Indexing #95 by Rob Bennett   The fellow who writes the Pop Economics blog (unfortunately, it is dormant for the time-being) is wise. When I had a discussion with him about the need for us as a society to make the transition from Buy-and-Hold to Valuation-Informed Indexing, he neither endorsed ...
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• How To Beat Most Active Managers: A Performance Analysis of Fundamental Indexation With Different Price Ratios

  
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  By  Greenbackd The rationale for a  value-weighted index  can be paraphrased as follows: Most investors, pro’s included, can’t beat the index.  Therefore,  buying an index fund is better than messing it up yourself or getting an active manager to mess it up for you. If you’re going to buy an ...
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• 63,000 – 70,000 ETF investors expected by the end of 2012

  
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  The number of ETF investors rose by 13% in 2011, and in 2012 it is expected to rise again, to somewhere between 63,000 – 70,000, according to the recent BetaShares/ Investment Trends ETF Report. This is quite impressive bearing in mind the current levels of market volatility.  So why are ETFs proving so ...
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• 1940 Census Status Update for 6 May 2012

  
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  I haven’t been watching the Find My Past horse. I’m not certain why; they are a 1940 U.S. Census Community Project member. The map on FindMyPast.com (shown to the right) shows that they are almost complete in their posting of census images and they have posted the same three indexes as other Project members ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wade Pfau: “I Hope We Can Stay in Touch. I Would Like to Do a Valuation-Informed Indexing Study, But It Will Probably Take a Few Months Before It Gets Finished.”

  
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  Yesterday’s blog entry reported on an e-mail that academic research Wade Pfau sent me on December 16, 2010. I sent my response on December 24, 2010. The text is set forth below. Wade: I have a few minutes today to write up some responses to this e-mail, which I didn’t get to write up when I first received it. ...
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• What Many People Will Not Tell You Regarding SEO

  
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  Search engine optimization is something that every website owner, small business owner and blogger should know about. It is a technique that helps search engine spiders find you quickly on the Internet. Using the advice written in this article will help you on the road to success on the Internet. When you hire someone ...
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• ETF investments are proving a more popular choice with investors than mutual funds

  
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  According to an article in today’s ETFExpress , ETF investments are winning the battle against actively managed funds. Why are investors choosing ETFs over mutual funds? Because ETF investments offer… Lower costs Greater transparency More liquidity Better tax efficiencies And according to Jonathan ...
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• Data Extraction Technology at Ancestry.com

  
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  Ancestry.com ’s Crista Cowan recently interviewed Laryn Brown, senior product manager, about Ancestry’s new data extraction technology. Ancestry is using the technology to make it easier to find people in their U.S. City Directory collection. The collection has been available for some time using an OCR index. ...
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• Will Harvard Library to Jettison Paid Access Academic Journals?

  
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  In what could be another step toward knowledge failure, BoingBoing reports “ Harvard Library to Faculty: We’re Going Broke Unless You Go Open Access .” Struggling with the high costs of academic journal access fees, the Harvard Library Faculty Advisory Council has decided to cancel all the library’s paid ...
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• MuseGlobal and Info Library Team for Mobile Access to Libraries

  
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  As many book retailers are being shut down due to an increase in e-book and tablet use, many are worried about what will become of our public libraries. I nfo Library and Information Solutions recently reported on a partnership that may provide a solution to this problem in the article, “Muse Global and Info ...
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• Low-Volatility ETFs to Protect Against Market Gyrations

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 547
  After the wild market oscillations in 2011, many investors have become guarded in their equities allocations. Meanwhile, exchange traded funds that track the “low volatility” theme have made their way into the markets, providing investors a more cautious position to global...
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• Genealogy Webinars for May 2012

  
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  2 May 2012, 2:00pm – Researching Your Pennsylvania Ancestors Pennsylvania has a plethora of archives, libraries, and repositories, where you’ll find a wealth of documents to help you unlock key details about your ancestors. Discover what records are available, where they are located and how to utilize them to ...
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• Inside View of FamilySearch Indexing the 1940 Census

  
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  Thomas McGill gave an insider’s view of FamilySearch indexing in a presentation to the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) on 19 April 2012. The presentation was hosted by UGA president, Janet Hovorka (“ the Chart Chick ”). McGill shared internal information about FamilySearch’s indexing work. Prior ...
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• Of Falling Risks and Indexes

  
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  Any quantitative strategy is susceptible to being reduced to an index, and along with this, to transparency and routine. Once this happens, that "alpha" becomes "beta," and the 2 + 20 fees are no longer available. A manager in search of alpha will have to move beyond that strategy, peeling away that layer of the onion ...
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• Indexing: How To Get All Of Your Web Pages Indexed In The Major Search Engines

  
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  by Rain Rabbit A site is more than just a property page. In reality, it is beneficial to feel of a site as a cluster of mini sites, with each and every of the inner pages getting a full-fledged site. Depending on the content material of these interior pages, site visitors will enter your site [...]
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• Experimental Search Engine Removes Top Million Sites From Your Results

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 709
  Do you ever feel the search results that Google yields are too mainstream? Are you looking to explore the cavernous, cobweb-laden outer reaches of the interwebs? If you want to spend some time on some deep discovery, Million Short might be your ticket. Million Short’s name says it all. It’s a search engine ...
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• Should There Be a Valuation-Informed Indexing Fund?

  
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  Valuation-Informed Indexing #92 by Rob Bennett I have been asked on occasion whether there should be a fund that would  provide a convenient means for those who want to invest according to Valuation-Informed Indexing principles to do so. Some have even suggested that, given my non-stop evangelizing, I should start ...
  3 weeks ago

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