MERRILL LYNCH RPM INDEX
MODERN INDEX CONSTRUCTION SEEKING BROAD DIVERSIFICATION
The RPM Index is designed to leverage principles used by the largest financial institutions—including diversification, positive momentum and risk control — to help generate consistent returns in good and bad market environments. Diversification starts with a group of global asset classes across equities, fixed income and real assets:
- Domestic Equities
- International Equities
- Emerging Markets Equities
- Gold
- Real Estate
- Bonds
The RPM Index applies a rules-based approach to eliminate emotion, bias and the need to time the markets. The asset classes are rebalanced each month to reduce risk and correlation while leveraging positive short-term momentum. The result is an index that seeks to provide a broader level of diversification.