A Loring Ward report in Advisor Perspectives showed how international diversification worked over the 10-year period from 2000 – 2010, with the Morgan Stanley Capital Index for emerging markets generating ten-year returns of 154 percent balancing the blue-chip S & P 500 index, which lost 9. 1 percent over the same period – a historically rare event.

Along with the NASDAQ Composite, the S & P 500 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index, the Dow is among the most closely watched U. S. benchmark indices tracking targeted stock market activity.

The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S & P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ 100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.

Bogle's fund was later renamed the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, which tracks the Standard and Poor's 500 Index.

Index funds are open-end funds that attempt to replicate an index, such as the S & P 500, and therefore do not allow the manager to actively choose securities to buy.

As Malkiel has shown, over the 30 years ( to 1996 ) more than two-thirds of professional portfolio managers have been outperformed by the S & P 500 Index ( and, more to the point, there is little correlation between those who outperform in one year and those who outperform in the next.

The first retail index fund, First Index Investment Trust, was formed in 1976 by The Vanguard Group, headed by John Bogle ; it is now called the Vanguard 500 Index Fund and is one of the world's largest mutual funds, with more than $ 100 billion in assets as of January 31, 2011.

For instance, the CBOE Volatility Index ( VIX ) is calculated from a weighted average of implied volatilities of various options on the S & P 500 Index.

The company is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) and a component of both the S & P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average .< ref >

In 1982 the dividend yield on the S & P 500 Index reached 6. 7 %.

In 1996, Tyco was added to the Standard & Poor's S & P 500 Composite Index, which consists of the 500 publicly traded companies in the United States with the largest market capitalization.

Both of those factors differentiate it from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the exclusion of financial companies distinguishes it from the S & P 500 Index.

Although the S & P 500 Index includes non-U. S. companies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has never included foreign companies.

CBOE offers binary options on the S & P 500 ( SPX ) and the CBOE Volatility Index ( VIX ).

Its subsidiary, American Media Operations Inc., listed assets of $ 100 to $ 500 million and debt of over $ 1 billion.

Its effective strength of 1, 500 in the late 1960s doubled to 3, 000 in the early 1970s, and in 1987 it was estimated at 4, 500.

Its stadium is called ' De Vliert ', a 8, 500 all-seater.

Its trade covered, and it had 1, 500 contract employees.

Its general and education programs were broadcast through more than 6, 900 television stations and nearly 330 AM and more than 500 FM radio transmitting stations.

Its title song was named " One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock " by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.

Its highest points are the Picos de Europa, surpassing 2, 600 m. The Cordillera Cantábrica extends 182 km and abruptly drops 1, 500 m some 30 km from the coast.

Its population was 35, 500 in 1999.

Its average annual temperature is 9. 5 ºC ; its average annual precipitation is 500 millimetres.

Its speed of printing varies from 50 to 500 cps.

Its depth is only 44 meters ( 144 ft ) on average, with a maximum of 152 meters ( 500 ft ).

Its popularity began to steadily decline thereafter ; the name fell out of the top 100 after 1977, and out of the top 500 after 2001.

Its architect was Axel Jonson, and the construction lasted for one year at a cost of approximately 500, 000 SEK.

Its predecessors, the Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000, shared the same fundamental system architecture and consequently performed without much variation in processing speed despite considerable variation in purchase price.

Its population is 76, 500 ( the German part 31, 500 ; the Polish part 45, 000 ).

Headquartered in Utica, New York, the division included more than 8, 500 employees in five locations in the northeastern U. S. Its products included aircraft flight and weapon control systems, cockpit instruments, aircraft electrical generating systems, airborne radars and data processing systems, electronic countermeasures, space command systems, and aircraft / surface multi-barrel armament systems.

Its numbers have slowly dwindled over the decades to the current population of 180 to 500 eagles.

Its total mass has been estimated to be between 8, 500 and 10, 500 tons, and its age at somewhere between 2, 000 and 8, 500 years.

Its enrollment is about 500 students from pre-school to grade 8.

Its population in 1884 was estimated to be 1, 500.

* Lowest Crowd: 2. 500 Roda JC – Fylkir 3 – 0 UEFA Cup, 11 September 2001

* The West Hempstead Chiefs Soccer Club, founded over 30 years ago has over 500 families registered for its current 2010 – 2011 season and fields teams at both the intramural level and competing in the LIJSL Travel division at the Girls and Boys Level.

On September 12, 2009, Armadillo won $ 500, 000 by succeeding in the 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2.

The " 400 Level " was reserved for the press and dignitaries ; the upper level began with " 500 Level " ( or " loge boxes "), the " 600 Level " ( upper reserved, or individual seats ), and finally, the 700 Level ( general admission for baseball ).

The vertical limit of Dublin's Airspace is Flight Level 245 ( 24, 500 ft ).

In 1906, construction of the King Edward VII Bridge, some 500 yards to the west of the High Level Bridge, was completed.

The Tierra caliente forms at Sea Level to about 2, 500 ft ( roughly 750 m ).

• Maximum Noise Level – A maximum noise level of 95. 0 dBA Single Event Noise Exposure Level, measured at noise monitor sites 1, 500 feet from each end of the runway, is enforced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

When an anonymous donor first gave $ 500 to the winning Advanced Level team, a Virginia team won and spent it on the Maureen O ' Donnell traveling trophy, which spends the year in the state of the winning Advanced Level team.