Taylor Swift is the famous country singer, winner of 40 awards, and made more famous by the incident with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. But she is successful for another reason. Taylor is connected to a lot of publicly traded companies, acting as spokesperson for their products, record labels, and movie distributors. Tracking the stocks she is connected with from January of 2009, the Taylor Swift Stock Index has greatly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, rising 40% for the year versus only 29% for the Dow. The stocks in her portfolio include: Jakks Pacific, Inc. (JAKK) Taylor Swift celebrity doll Jones Apparel Group, Inc. (JNY) the face of L.E.I. Jeans (Life Energy Intelligence) since 2008 Vivendi SA ADR (VIVDY.PK) albums: Taylor Swift, Feerless, Beautiful Eyes, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, Live from SoHo , Big Machine Records, Universal Music Group Time Warner Inc. (TWX) starring in Valentine's Day movie, New Line Cinema Viacom (VIAB) appeared last year on CMT Crossroads , Country Music Television Disney (DIS) starred in Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Other celebrity stock indexes you may be interested in include the Heidi Klum Stock Index , the Eva Longoria Stock Index , the Angelina Jolie Stock Index , the Jessica Alba Stock Index , the Nicole Kidman Stock Index , the Freida Pinto Stock Index , and the Supermodels Stock Indices . Assumptions: The Taylor Swift Index is a price-weighted index, similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Author owns DIS and TWX. By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com Photo courtesy of wikipedia. No celebrity endorsement expressed or implied.