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Themes & Topics
Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) & Index Funds

Background Information

• Market Efficiency (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)
• Some Empirical Evidence (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)

News Stories

• With Each Passing Year, January Bounce Narrows (WSJ, December 29, 1998)

• Mutual-Fund Firms Attempt A New Spin in Advertising (WSJ, November 10, 1998)

• Finding the Best Defensive Funds in a Down Market (Fortune)

• S&P Plans to Change Timing Of Releases After Price Jump (WSJ, December 31, 1998)

• World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) act like global index funds (CNNfn, June 9, 1998)

• Online Stock Index Tracks Top 30 Firms Run by Women (SF Chronicle, May 12, 1998)

• MARKET TIMING: A PERILOUS PLOY (BusinessWeek, March 9, 1998)

• The Forbes/Hubert Investment Letter Survey (Forbes, January 26, 1998)

• Analysts' Forecast: See no evil, speak no evil (Forbes, December 15, 1997)

• THE DOW'S DOGS WON'T HUNT: A POPULAR INVESTMENT THEORY HAS RUN ITS COURSE (Time, December 8, 1997)

• Index funds: the conspiracy against the small caps. (Red Herring, July, 1997)

• YOUR FUND IS NOT UP TO PAR (Time, January 27, 1997)

• Either Mindspring Is Too Cheap, or Earthlink Is Too Expensive Do they deserve those big spreads in their valuations? (San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 1997)

• Why and Which Index Funds To Invest In? (Money)

• On a lighter side: Investment Clubs Have Bad Quarter -- Returns Dip 10% . (San Francisco Chronicle)

Bloopers & Blunders

• Reasoning for the Surge in the Dow.

Finance By Example (Archives)

Bubbles in History: Is There Something To Be Learned?

Evidence: Few Brokerage Firms Beat the Market Last Year

Front Running & Excess Returns

Internet Chat and Market Efficiency

The Stampede To Index Funds

Two Analysts’ Forecasts Diverge by 2,000 Points!

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