Nasdaq Chaikin Power Indexes Outperform Nasdaq Benchmarks

PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaikin Analytics, LLC announced today the successful one-year performance results of the three unmanaged Nasdaq Chaikin Power Indexes: the Nasdaq Chaikin Power US Large Cap Index^SM (NQULCHK), the Nasdaq Chaikin Power US Small Cap Index^SM (NQUSCHK), and the Nasdaq Chaikin Power US Dividend Achievers Index^SM (NQDACHK).

In April 2014, Chaikin Analytics partnered with Nasdaq to overlay Chaikin's 'Enhanced Alpha' strategy, using the Chaikin Power Gauge stock rating model on three popular Nasdaq stock indexes: Large Cap, Small Cap, and Dividend Achievers. The first-year results significantly exceeded their benchmarks, validating the Chaikin Power Gauge model and providing a track record that any fund sponsor can feel confident in using as an anchor for a family of robust all-weather funds. These indexes are available to fund managers, advisors, and investors for licensing and implementation through separately managed accounts and ETFs.

The one-year performance results show that Chaikin's indexes outperformed their their benchmarks by +52% in US Large Cap Indexes, +77% in US Small Cap Indexes, and +49% in US Dividend Achievers.

"These indexes combine the best traits of smart beta and proven alpha with enhanced performance by narrowing existing indexes down to their most promising constituents," Marc Chaikin, CEO and founder of Chaikin Analytics, commented. "By partnering with an innovative, market-leading, global index provider such as Nasdaq Global Indexes, asset managers and investors around the world have access to these proven, enhanced investment strategies."

The Chaikin Power Gauge, the foundation of all Chaikin products and services and the basis for these enhanced alpha indexes, is based on a proprietary twenty-factor model that uniquely combines fundamental, technical, and sentiment factors into an unbiased rating that indicates a security's statistical probability to over- or under-perform the market in the intermediate term.  This methodology, coupled with a defined set of rules and criteria applied in a systematic and consistent manner, created these enhanced alpha indexes.

The Nasdaq Chaikin Power Indexes offer investment and asset managers unique, quantitatively enhanced strategies to provide client portfolios with proven enhanced index performance, while maintaining the liquidity and transparency standards they require.

The 2015 one-year results of the Nasdaq Chaikin Power Indexes validate the successful performance of Chaikin's enhanced alpha investible product creation methodology. These indexes were rebalanced on April 1, 2015.

For licensing inquiries concerning the Nasdaq Chaikin Power Indexes as model portfolios for separately managed accounts or for registered products to be offered by ETF providers or mutual fund advisors, please call +301.978.8050 or email the Nasdaq Global Index Group at [email protected].

About Chaikin Analytics, LLC

A Wall Street analyst, stock broker and options expert for 40 years, Chaikin created the Chaikin Power Gauge,  a proven 20-factor model that uniquely combines fundamental, technical and sentiment factors to provide alpha. With the Chaikin Power Gauge stock rating model as its centerpiece, Chaikin Analytics offers powerful decision-making tools on desktop and iPad.

Chaikin also created three technical trading indicators, the Chaikin Oscillator, the Chaikin Accumulation/Distribution Indicator and the Chaikin Persistency of Money Flow. Chaikin's indicators are industry standards, found on most trading platforms in the world. He also pioneered the first real-time analytics workstation for institutional money managers and trading desks, now part of Thomson Reuters' institutional workstation. 

For more information on Chaikin Analytics, LLC please visit www.chaikinanalytics.com.

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