-weighted counterparts, offer an efficient risk/return trade-off. The index construction method goes back to the roots of modern portfolio … theory and focuses on the tangency portfolio, the portfolio that weights index constituents so as to obtain the highest …

Financial indices, like the S&P 500 or the Consumer Price Index, have become a ubiquitous feature of our financial … markets. One index, the London InterBank Offered Rate (“Libor”), may be the world's most important number, an interest rate … dollars potentially misappropriated. This index disruption has attracted tremendous interest from regulators, private …

. This new indicator is entitled "The Starbucksication Index." The word "Stabucksication" is originated from the successful … Starbucks coffee firm that they are expanding globally and geometrically in the last fifteen years. This index can show the … purchasing power parity (PPP) and income distribution in any city or country. The Stabucksication index is based on monitoring …