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Editor’s Letter

Brian R. Bruce
The Journal of Index Investing Winter 2011, 2 (3) 1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jii.2011.2.3.001
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Our Summer 2011 issue included an article by Robert Arnott entitled “Better Beta Explained: Demystifying Alternative Equity Index Strategies.” We begin this issue with a commentary by Noël Amenc that questions the methodology of the analysis done in Arnott’s article. In the second article, Robert Shapiro and Ric Thomas discuss gold as a superior inflation hedging tool. This is followed by Brian Boscaljon, Greg Filbeck, and Xin Zhao’s examination of the efficiency of the S&P 500 Index, the benchmark of choice for U.S. domestic equity market portfolios. Andrew Clark presents a new way of measuring stock liquidity utilizing price and bid–ask spread, and John Haslem examines the fees paid by 401(k) pension plans for their investments in mutual funds.

Steven Dolvin and Jill Kirby examine momentum trading in ETFs under the trading rule “there’s always a bull market somewhere.” This is followed by an article by Larry Prather, Ting-Heng Chu, Imtiaz Mazumder, and Che-Chun Lin, who investigate alternative S&P 500 indexing strategies utilizing mutual funds and SPDRs. Manu Sharma and Rajnish Aggarwal examine returns of several Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund broad indexes and determine that they dwindled to a lesser degree than other market indexes during 2008–2009 period. Next K. Vaidyanathan provides evidence that the assets under management for mutual fund families in the U.S. follow a Pareto distribution. We conclude this issue with a review by Bruce Costa, Keith Jakob, and Scott Niblock of the risk-adjusted returns of socially responsible mutual funds; they find that SRI mutual fund managers may not be selecting benchmark indexes that are reflective of the fund’s risk characteristics.

We welcome your submissions. Please encourage those you know who have good papers or who have made good presentations on indexing, ETFs, mutual funds, or related subjects to submit them to us. We value your comments and suggestions, so please email us at journals{at}investmentresearch.org.

Brian R. Bruce

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    Institutional Investor, the Publisher of The Journal of Index Investing, wants to extend a special thanks to the sponsors for supporting the launch of The Journal of Index Investing. Please note that no sponsor has influence on the editorial content found in The Journal of Index Investing. Representatives fromany firmare encouraged to submit an article to our independent editor, Brian R. Bruce, for review and prospective acceptance into the publication. All editorial submissions, acceptances, and revisions are the sole decision of Mr. Bruce. The editorial submission guidelines are found on the last page of the publication. I hope that you enjoy this and future issues of The Journal of Index Investing. Thank you.

    Allison Adams

    Group Publisher, Institutional Investor Journals, aadams{at}iijournals.com

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