The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need: The Good, the Flawed, the Bad, and the Ugly

List of Tables

Table 1.1	Investment Efficiency, U.S. Stocks, International Stocks, and REITs, 1978–2007
Table 1.2	Correlation of Annual Returns
Table 1.3	Diversification Benefits of REITs, 1978–2007
Table 2.1	Decision Table for Allocation of Short-Term Fixed-Income and of 10-Year TIPS or a TIPS Fund
Table 2.2	Decision Table for the Allocation and Maturity of TIPS
Table 3.1	Returns and Volatility: Commodities, Stocks, and Bonds, 1973–2007
Table 3.2	Major Asset Classes: Annual Correlation with the S&P GSCI, 1973–2007
Table 3.3	Correlations of Commodities Futures Returns with Stocks, Bonds, and Inflation, July 1959–December 2004
Table 3.4	S&P 500 and S&P GSCI: Returns Correlated with the Business Cycle
Table 3.5	Returns and Volatility of Stocks, Bonds, and the S&P GSCI, 1980–1989
Table 3.6	Years of Negative Returns of Lehman Brothers Treasury Bond Index (1–30 years), 1973–2007
Table 3.7	Years of Negative Returns of the S&P 500, 1973–2007
Table 3.8	Sample Portfolios: DJ-AIGCI and S&P GSCI, 1991–2007
Table 3.9	Oil Stocks: Betas and Correlations with Equities and Oil Prices, 1990–2000
Table 4.1	Comparative Performance: Emerging Markets, Emerging Market Small-Cap, and Emerging Market Value, 1989–2007
Table 4.2	Sample Portfolios, 1988–2007
Table 4.3	Comparative P/E Ratios
Table 4.4	Comparing Large-Cap, Small-Cap, and Value Emerging Market Stocks, 1989–2007
Table 4.5	Performance: S&P 500, MSCI EAFE, and International Small-Cap Stocks, 1970–2007
Table 4.6	Sample Portfolios: International Small-Cap Allocations, 1970–2007
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