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CPMKTSsm Press Releases
- January 2, 2009 - Bond Market's Size Tops Equities for First Time Since '95
Robust growth in the bond market led the way as the markets for equity, liquidity and bonds all grew in December. For the first time in nearly 14 years the market for bonds is larger than that for equities.
- December 1, 2008 - Equities Again Drag Down Markets
November 2008 was nearly as swinging as October and nearly as negative as well. Bonds and liquidity securities managed to eke out gains while equities again took heavy losses. The traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets decreased by 3.97% as they shed $1.14 trillion to close November valued at $27.53 trillion.
- November 3, 2008 - Equities Post Largest Single-month Dollar Loss Ever
At the end of a highly volatile month, equities plummeted, bonds were down, and liquidity securities ended up. Overall, traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets had their worst percentage loss in over 10 years, and largest dollar loss ever. The 6.20% decline for the month of October wiped out nearly $1.9 trillion to bring the size of the traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets to $28.67 trillion.
- October 3, 2008 - Real-time Bond Indexes Announced
At a time when greater transparency and current market information are required, Dorchester Capital Management LLC announces five new real-time indexes to track major segments of the fixed income market. These indexes are sub-indexes of Dorchester’s CPMKTSBsm The Capital Markets Bond Index published by the American Stock Exchange under the symbol CPMKTB.
- October 1, 2008 - Bonds Down, Equities Devastated
Liquidity was the only gainer while bonds were down and equities were devastated as the investment grade U. S. capital markets had their largest one month loss since March, 2001. The combined markets were down 5.01% to $30.56 trillion at the end of September.
- September 2, 2008 - Modest Equity Gains Lift Markets
In a month where liquidity securities were down slightly and bond securities were flat, equity securities pulled out a workman like performance to put the traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets solidly on the right side of change. Reversing the trends of the two previous months, August saw the markets grow 0.55% to $32.17 trillion.
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CPMKTSsm in the News
- February 29, 2008 - IndexUniverse: The Long Road: Mother Of All Indexes
As a finance student at the University of Chicago exploring modern portfolio theory, Warren Schmalenberger wondered why current indexes didn't cover the entire efficient frontier. As years went by, he built some "baby models" seeking to track all U.S. stocks and fixed-income in a single benchmark. "In order to do this, I quickly realized that we'd have to download an immense amount of data from multiple sources," said Schmalenberger, now chief executive of Houston-based Dorchester Capital Management Co.
- February 12, 2008: The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) today announced that it has launched trading in three new exchange traded funds (ETFs) from Claymore Securities, Inc.
The Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Bond ETF (UBD), the Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Micro-Term Fixed Income ETF (ULQ) and the Claymore U.S.-1 - The Capital Markets Index ETF (UEM). These three new ETFs bring the total number of ETFs listed on the Amex to 388.
- February 12, 2008 - IndexUniverse: New ETF Tracks Total Market for Stocks & Bonds
The move to slice and dice the market is getting a new challenge. On Tuesday, three new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are set to launch, each taking the total markets concept a step further.
- September 18, 2006 - MarketWatch: CPMKTS Pursues ETF
Meeting investors' needs for diversification, CPMKTS counters trends toward more specialized exchange traded funds with plans for an ETF that reflects the entire capital market.
- September 12, 2006 - Journal of Indexes: CPMKTS Inventor Warren Schmalenberger Interviewed
The Journal of Indexes interviews Warren Schmalenberger as one of the top 15 innovators and establishment leaders in the index industry.
- June 2, 2006 - Houston Business Journal: Advanced Technology, Broader Picture
Founder and CEO Warren Schmalenberger explains how technological advances have allowed Dorchester to process market data at the volume and speed necessary to capture minute-by-minute capital markets activity -- and why this information is important for investors.
- May 3, 2006 - Bloomberg News: New index debut
CPMKTS is designed to more accurately track U.S. financial markets. "This is one-stop shopping diversification," said index founder Warren Schmalenberger. "You buy this, you've bought a very good representation of the investment-grade market."
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