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Apr 27, 2020

Is Mid-cap Outperformance an Illusion?

S&P DJI’s Craig Lazzara explains how style drift could be responsible for inflating the perception of active manager skill. Read the Performance Trickery blogs at: www.indexologyblog.com

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Jul 24, 2019

Sector Analysis of the S&P MidCap 400®

U.S. mid-cap equities – as represented by the S&P MidCap 400 – outperformed both their larger and smaller counterparts since the early 1990s.  In decomposing relative returns, sector analysis can be useful to understand the drivers of performance.  For example, the S&P MidCap 400’s underweight position in Information Technology at the start of the 21st…

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Jul 22, 2019

Get to Know Mid-Cap U.S. Equities

S&P Dow Jones Indices’ recent paper “The S&P MidCap 400®: Outperformance and Potential Applications” shows that mid-cap stocks have often been overlooked in favor of other size ranges in investment practice and in academic literature. This is despite the fact that the S&P MidCap 400 has outperformed the S&P 500® and the S&P SmallCap 600®…

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Dec 3, 2018

Mid Caps Less Risky Than Large Caps?

In November, there was high market volatility in response to at least a few major events including the U.S. midterm elections, Brexit, G20 and Fed Chair Powell’s comments.  The risk (measured by 30-day annualized volatility) on Nov. 30, 2018 for the S&P 500 was 20.6%, which is 3.5 times higher than its risk of 5.9%…

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