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SPIVA Japan Scorecard 2022: Active Underperformance Despite an Abundance of Opportunities
The inaugural S&P Indices versus Active (SPIVA®) U.S. Scorecard was published in 2002, and has since been extended to Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, Latin America, South Africa and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), allowing investors to experience the active versus passive debate on a global scale. The SPIVA Japan Scorecard measures the…
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Diversification and Performance: Potential Applications of U.S. Equities in Japan
The U.S. equity market is by far the largest in the world, representing 57.7% of the global market capitalization, and it is nearly nine times the size of the Japanese equity market (see Exhibit 1). Hence, Japanese investors may wish to consider U.S. equities in order to not overlook a significant portion of the global…
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How Equal Weight Avoided Japan’s “Lost Decades”
S&P Dow Jones Indices recently launched the S&P Japan 500 Equal Weight Index, an equal-weight version of the S&P Japan 500. Over the 15-year period ending in February 2018, encompassing the latter part of Japan’s so-called “lost decades” of stagnant equity returns, the equal-weight index would have outperformed the cap-weighted Japanese equity benchmark by a stonking…
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