Passions Run High On Indexing.

Did you see the latest issue of The Financial Analysts Journal? Silly me. Of course you didn't. The Financial Analysts Journal is one of those small prestigious publications -- published, in this case, by the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute -- in which academics and other interested parties -- in this case, financial professionals with an interest in portfolio theory -- publish papers and research. The papers, with their emphasis on math and the jargon of academic finance, are, let's face it, pretty incomprehensible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]