From the End of 2000 Until the End of 2012

question 211

Short Answer

From the end of 2000 until the end of 2012, the S&P/TSX Composite Index rose from 8934 to 12,434. If you had invested $50,000 in a portfolio of the shares of the companies in the Index at the end of 2000, what would the value of those shares have been at the end of 2012? (This calculation considers only the price appreciation of the original shares. It does not include the portion of the growth in the portfolio's value resulting from the receipt and reinvestment of dividends.)

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Definitions:

Compound Name

The systematic or common name given to a chemical substance based on its composition and structure.

Aromatic

Refers to organic compounds containing one or more planar rings of atoms that are stable due to resonance of bonding electrons.

Antiaromatic

A type of compound that is cyclic, planar, and conjugated, but does not follow Huckel's rule, having 4n π electrons which destabilize it.

Nonaromatic

A compound that does not contain a benzene-like ring and does not exhibit the stability typical of aromatic compounds.