Fundamental Indexation

Posted: 5 May 2005

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Robert D. Arnott

Research Affiliates, LLC

Jason C. Hsu

Research Affiliates; Rayliant Global Advisors; University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business

Philip Moore

Pacific Investment Consultants, LLC

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Abstract

A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes, even though the finance literature rejects the mean-variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean-variance efficient than those based on market cap. These Fundamental indexes were found to deliver consistent, significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes. The true importance of the difference may have been best noted by Benjamin Graham: In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

Keywords: Investment Theory, Portfolio Theory, Portfolio Management, Equity Strategies, Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Performance Measurement, Equity Investments, Fundamental Analysis and Valuation Models

Suggested Citation

Arnott, Robert D. and Hsu, Jason C. and Hsu, Jason C. and Moore, Philip, Fundamental Indexation. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=713865

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