Friday 8 February 2013

 Russell 3000 Index

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The Russell 3000 Index is a stock market index of US stocks.
The ticker symbol is ^RUA.
This index measures the performance of 3,000 publicly held US companies based on total market capitalization, which represents approximately 98% of the investable US market.

Contents

Annual returns reflected by the Russell 3000

Year Return
1994 0.19
1995 36.80
1996 21.82
1997 31.78
1998 24.14
1999 20.90
2000 −7.46
2001 −11.46
2002 −21.54
2003 31.06
2004 11.95
2005 6.12
2006 15.71
2007 5.14
2008 −37.31

Investing

The Russell 3000 Index is tracked by several exchange-traded funds, such as the iShares Russell 1000 Index (NYSEIWV).

Top 10 holdings

(as of November 2010)

Top sectors by weight

  • Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Consumer Discretionary
  • Energy

See also

External links

Russell 3000® Index membership list


http://www.russell.com/indexes/documents/Membership/Russell3000_Membership_list.pdf

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