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FTSE Returns Since 30th December 1999
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A new FTSE 100 product...
Instead of market capitalisation based each Ftse company represents 1% of the fund and rebalanced twice a year.
http://www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/d/db-x-trackers-ftse-100-equal-weight-ucits
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/investor/11854321/A-smarter-way-to-track-New-fund-treats-every-FTSE-100-company-the-same.html
http://www.etfstrategy.co.uk/deutsche-awm-launches-first-equally-weighted-ftse-100-etf-77738/0 -
Any other start date you could choose (except possibly just before the financial crisis) would show a better return - and most of them would show much better returns.
Jun15 2007, FTSE 100=6732, FTSE 100 TR=3851
Aug28 2015, FTSE 100=6248, FTSE 100 TR=4855
So, £10000 would have been turned into £12600 but over a shorter time frame.I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0
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