Benchmarking Your Benchmarks
Sep 13, 2004
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By Craig L. Israelsen, PhD
Mid-cap growth returned 28.7% in 1999—or was it 67.3%? It all depends on which major index you look at. If a 3,860-basis-point differential is a little hard to take, maybe you should not only benchmark your investments, but benchmark your index against its peers.