Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe, Australia, Far East Index

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Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe, Australia, Far East Index

An index published by Morgan Stanley Capital International that tracks stocks in Europe, Australia, and East Asia. It is considered one of the most important indices for stocks outside the United States; indeed, its strong performance in the 1980s and early 1990s has been credited with spurring American interest in foreign investment. It is weighted for market capitalization.

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The fund's portfolio managers, Fred Copper and Daisuke Nomoto, will invest in companies that they believe are attractively priced and have better growth, returns and profitability versus the fund's benchmark, the MSCI EAFE Index.

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For instance, in three out of the last four calendar years, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has topped the chief international benchmark, the MSCI EAFE Index.

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The blue line in the accompanying chart plots, from the end of 1999 through the first quarter of this year, an index of return of the MSCI EAFE index (covering large companies in the markets of Europe, Asia and the Far East), while the purple line represents the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500, and the green line at the bottom shows the correlation between their returns for rolling 24-month periods.

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9 percent, and the MSCI EAFE Index rose approximately 1.

Pension funding status improves in Q2

Puts protecting against a 10 per cent drop in the iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund cost 5.

European stocks decline from 2008 high as utility shares slip

Aggregate Bond Index (40 per cent), the MSCI EAFE Index (18 per cent) and the MSCI Emerging Markets (Free) Index (2 per cent).

Janus launches moderate allocation portfolio for insurance channel

Intemational Small Index data: 1970-June 1981, 50% UK small cap stocks provided by the London Business School and 50% Japan small cap stocks procided by Normura Securities; July 1981=present, compiled by Dimensional from StyleResearch securities data; includes securities of MSCI EAFE Index countries, market-capitalization weighted, each country capped at 50%: rebalanced semiannually.

Navigating volatility: concepts for investment success in turbulent times

LaBella said, "Many investors rely on passive indices like the S&P 500 for US or the MSCI EAFE Index for International and, as a result, find themselves disappointed with the results in unstable markets.