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Strategies & Market Trends : Currencies and the Global Capital Markets

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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (1714)6/3/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Sam   of 3536
 
Here is a pretty interesting article, on the rebalancing of the Russell 2000 index, and what it all means for INut investing, um, buying:
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(NOTE: there was no attribution in the post.)

An excerpt:
<<I think a lot of portfolio managers with capital in the
Internet stocks have simply decided to commit intellectual
suicide regarding the group's valuations. Repeatedly,
their investment rationale centers around the fact that their
investment benchmark contains a healthy Internet component.
Those who have held to historical valuation methods
have simply watched their competitors and benchmarks
surge while their portfolios stalled. For many, it's a
case of career survival and asset protection.
Bottom line: many portfolio managers have
made a portfolio decision rather than an investment
decision regarding their Internet
holdings.

What makes such a capital capitulation into the Internet
space dangerous is the fact that the benchmark driving
the decision will be radically adjusted at the end of June.
Through the annual re-balancing, the
Russell 2000 will find its Internet weighting
fall from 9.3% to 3.2% overnight on June
30.
Given the universal application of the Russell 2000 as a performance
benchmark for small-stock investors, such an adjustment
entails significant consequences.>>
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