A total return index is different from a price index.

While it is common to refer to equity based indices, there are also total return indices for bonds and commodities.

The U.S.A. Total Return index rose more than 5 percent for the month.

However, when they use TSR for the companies it is called a total return index or accumulation index.

The corresponding total return index is disseminated daily through ticker AMZX.

Cbonds Eurobond indices are total return indices.

IBOVESPA: Total return index comprising the most representative companies in the market, both by market cap and traded volume.

The Lahore Stock Exchange Total Return Index calculates the performance of stocks assuming that all payouts are reinvested in the index on the ex-date.

This has created considerable value with the MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan Total Return Index trading on a price/earnings ratio of just 9x.

Exchange-traded commodities (ETCs) are investment vehicles (asset backed bonds, fully collateralised) that track the performance of an underlying commodity index including total return indices based on a single commodity.

A total return index is an index that measures the performance of a group of components by assuming that all cash distributions are reinvested, in addition to tracking the components' price movements.

The NextEconomy and NextPrime segments each have a price index and a total return index, weighted by market capitalisation and excluding the shares listed in the Euronext 100 Index.

Ryan Labs computes a total return index for the entire market of Treasury notes and bonds, and calculates that from the start of the year through Friday the market had taken a loss of 3.54 percent.

The ETF tracks the EURO STOXX Optimised Banks Total Return index (net) which has been optimised to reduce exposure to illiquid stocks.

This product tracks S&P GSCI Crude Oil Enhanced Total Return Index providing a significantly higher level of correlation to the price performance of spot WTI crude oil.

A price index only considers price movements (capital gains or losses) of the securities that make up the index, while a total return index includes dividends, interest, rights offerings and other distributions realized over a given period of time.

To illustrate the implications for investors, the researchers constructed a hypothetical portfolio invested entirely in the domestic stock market, as measured by the U.S.A. Total Return index from Morgan Stanley Capital International, whenever the price of oil declined during the previous month.

The German stock market index DAX is an example of a total return index, as is the Australian All Ordinaries Accumulation Index; and the S&P 500 index has both a price return and a total return version.

The SPSE also maintains the SPSE Total Return Index (STRI) which is an aggregate market capitalization index which reflects the aggregate market value of all its components relative to their aggregate value on the base day.