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Abstract
In this article, the author detail the historic background behind the science of constructing a country or global index. He argues that the industry has largely developed from practitioners rather than academia. He shows how a country index is related to the market portfolio of the capital market pricing model and details the trade-offs that modern index constructors have to make.
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