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Indexing Beyond Large-caps: What happens to top performing funds?
At S&P Dow Jones Indices, our research indicates that indexing small-cap and mid-cap stocks works as well as it does for large-cap stocks, even though the large-cap segment may be more efficient than its junior siblings. Nevertheless, the popular belief that indexing works better for large-caps is well-entrenched and widely endorsed by advisors, consultants, and…
Coming Soon to a Dictionary Near You
It may have been 30 years ago, in the early days of stock index futures, that the verb “equitize” (and its cognate noun, “equitization“) came into relatively common use. The term, if Dr. Johnson will forgive me, meant “to provide equity returns without purchasing equity securities.” Typically this was accomplished by buying S&P 500 futures — if I…
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