The Ins and Outs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

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Source: WSJ

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  1. machinehead commented on Mar 12

    A paper written in 2000 compared the actual price-weighted DJIA to a backfilled equal-weighted DJIA, during 1928-1998. The equal-weighted DJIA outperformed by 1.17% annually.

    http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434/434Context/Indices/DowFlaws.pdf

    Dow Jones needs to bite the bullet and reformulate the DJIA as either a value or equal-weighted index. Winning the performance race points toward equal weighting. An equal-weighted DJIA likely could beat the S&P 500.

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