Comments on: Fundamental Indexing vs. Traditional Indexing http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/fundamental-indexing-vs-traditional-indexing/ Because wealth is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: My Open Wallet http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/fundamental-indexing-vs-traditional-indexing/comment-page-1/#comment-14787 My Open Wallet Mon, 14 May 2007 13:33:17 +0000 http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/fundamental-indexing-vs-traditional-indexing/#comment-14787 <strong>Carnival of Personal Finance #100...</strong> Welcome to the Carnival of Personal Finance, C-Note Edition! Yes, this is the one-hundredth Carnival. Think of the hundreds of bloggers who have participated over the past almost two years! The hundreds and thousands of posts! The hundreds and thousa..... Carnival of Personal Finance #100…

Welcome to the Carnival of Personal Finance, C-Note Edition! Yes, this is the one-hundredth Carnival. Think of the hundreds of bloggers who have participated over the past almost two years! The hundreds and thousands of posts! The hundreds and thousa…..

]]> By: shadox http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/fundamental-indexing-vs-traditional-indexing/comment-page-1/#comment-14771 shadox Mon, 14 May 2007 07:27:11 +0000 http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/fundamental-indexing-vs-traditional-indexing/#comment-14771 This is a very interesting post. I was aware of some alternate opinions within the indexing community, but was not aware of the details. My intial concerns are closely related to the ones you describe. Namely, how would the fundemental indexing strategy be decided upon and isn't this difficulty exactly the same crticism leveled at actively managed funds, i.e. that the market is efficient and therefore a decision to pick a stock or not is not an informed decision? In this case, the decision to pick a stock or not would be replaced by the decision to over-weight or under-weight a stock. Am I missing something? This is a very interesting post. I was aware of some alternate opinions within the indexing community, but was not aware of the details.

My intial concerns are closely related to the ones you describe. Namely, how would the fundemental indexing strategy be decided upon and isn’t this difficulty exactly the same crticism leveled at actively managed funds, i.e. that the market is efficient and therefore a decision to pick a stock or not is not an informed decision? In this case, the decision to pick a stock or not would be replaced by the decision to over-weight or under-weight a stock.

Am I missing something?

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