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Index Family: Wilshire Broad Market Indexes Index Name: The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index Measures the performance of all U.S. headquartered equity securities with readily available price data. Over 6,500 capitalization weighted security returns are used to adjust the index. The Wilshire 5000 base is its December 31, 1980 capitalization of $1,404.596 billion. Therefore, the index is an excellent approximation of dollar changes in the U.S. equity market. For instance, values of 2157.146 on 12/30/85 and 2164.690 on 12/31/85 represent an approximate increase of $7.5 billion. The Wilshire 5000 is the best measure of the entire U.S. stock market.
Index Family: Wilshire Broad Market Indexes
Measures the performance of all small and mid-cap stocks. It is constructed using the Wilshire 5000 securities with the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index removed. The approximately 6,000 capitalization weighted returns provide an excellent benchmark for "extended" fund managers. The Wilshire 4500 was created December 31, 1983.
Returns As of 08-30-2002, one year
Wilshire 5000 -18.41 Head Smart Investing |
