The Kingdom’s Edge: Finding Asymmetry and Growth in Saudi Equities
In early 2026, equity markets were shaken by the outbreak of war in the Middle East, triggering sharp energy price spikes and renewed inflation concerns. This blog explores how despite the challenging backdrop, Saudi Arabian equities have shown notable resilience, demonstrating their diversification characteristics during periods of heightened downside risk in global markets. Gauging Saudi…
The S&P 500 Catholic Values Index: 10 Years and Counting – Part 2
The S&P 500® Catholic Values Index has a decade-long track record that highlights the historical effectiveness of its sector-neutral approach to values-based indexing. An important feature of the S&P Catholic Values Indices Methodology is its sector weight redistribution approach. Rather than allowing exclusions to create potential sector tilts, the weights of excluded companies are proportionally…
The Significance of Select Sectors to APAC
As investors across the globe have wrestled with the impact of AI on the U.S. tech sector, valuation concerns, inflation jitters and more, U.S. markets have underperformed their Pan Asian peers. The S&P 500® has trailed the S&P Pan Asia BMI by 8% YTD,1 however the tide may be turning. Thanks to optimism surrounding easing…
Using Select Sectors to Evaluate Opportunities and Risks
What’s the relevance of U.S. sectors globally in the current landscape? Join S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston and State Street Investment Management’s Matt Bartolini as they explore the Select Sector Indices and how they are helping market participants evaluate and express sector views across evolving market conditions.
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- Tags GICS, S&P 500 Sectors, Select Sector Indices, Select Sectors, U.S. sectors, US FA
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S&P 500 Catholic Values Index: 10 Years and Counting – Part 1
For over a decade, the S&P 500® Catholic Values Index has served as a rules-based tool to help market participants that seek to align their investments with their values. The index was officially launched on Aug. 10, 2015, and excludes companies involved in activities inconsistent with the Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines of the U.S. Conference…
Introducing the S&P MERVAL Index (MEP): A Local USD View of Argentina’s Equity Market
The S&P MERVAL Index is Argentina’s flagship equity index and the main reference used by market participants to measure the performance of that market. However, in a high-inflation environment, Argentine peso returns can become distorted, so investors often look at returns in U.S. dollars. This raises an important question: in a market with high inflation…
2025: A Market for Stock Pickers in France?
Despite a strong year for global equities in 2025, most active funds in Europe struggled to outperform their benchmarks. According to the latest SPIVA® Europe Year-End 2025 Scorecard, 81.8% of active equity funds lagged their benchmarks over the past year, rising to 97.0% over the 10-year period.1 The France Equity fund category offered a notable…
One to Forget: SPIVA Europe U.K. Equity Active Fund Performance in 2025
2025 was full of memorable moments, from tariff tensions and continued AI advancement, to pop stars in space and billionaire weddings. For U.K. active equity funds, however, 2025 may well be a year to forget. Across the three relevant categories measured in the SPIVA Europe Year-End 2025 Scorecard (U.K. Equity, U.K. Large-/Mid-Cap Equity and U.K….
Mapping Liquidity across S&P 500 Sectors
Trading linked to S&P 500® sectors has expanded meaningfully in recent years, as market participants increasingly use sector instruments to allocate capital, hedge risk and express relative views within U.S. equities. As participation in index-linked markets has grown, liquidity has become an informative signal, revealing where attention is focused and how risk is being transferred….
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- Tags 2026, ETPs, futures, IIS, liquidity, Liquidity Monitor, S&P 500, sectors, US FA
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What Do the SPIVA Australia Results Imply for Active Portfolio Construction?
Our latest SPIVA® Australia Scorecard underscored the challenges that Australian active funds faced in converting a favorable stock-picking environment into meaningful results in 2025. Among the 831 active equity funds domiciled in Australia that we examined—spanning global equity, domestic equity and REITs—over two-thirds (570 funds) underperformed their category benchmarks. In contrast, active Australian bond funds…
