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Jul 6, 2021

Capturing Future Tech with Index-Based Tools

Discover how index-based strategies are expanding access to technology and innovation factors with S&P DJI’s Anu Ganti, Direxion’s Dave Mazza, and ProShares’ Simeon Hyman.

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Jul 1, 2021

Making Innovation Accessible

Explore strategies and practices for identifying, selecting, and delivering innovation and disruptive technologies with Main Management’s Kim D. Arthur, IDX’s Ben McMillan, Kensington Asset Management’s Bruce P. DeLaurentis, and 3D/L Capital Management’s Benjamin M. Lavine. Watch the full event https://on.spdji.com/harnessing-disruptive-innovation-with-indices-event-2021

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Nov 19, 2019

SPIVA® U.S. Mid-Year 2019 Highlights

The SPIVA U.S. Mid-Year 2019 Scorecard was published recently. The report shows that the strong rally in the domestic equities market in the first half of 2019 did not necessarily translate into success for active managers. Active managers’ performance relative to the benchmark indices showed significant discrepancies in different market segments. For the one-year period…

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Sep 17, 2018

The S&P 600 Escapes Suffocation From Q4 Benchmark Hugging

Small caps are outperforming large caps significantly in 2018, mainly from the tax cuts, growth,  strong dollar and concern about international trade.  This has driven the S&P 600 (TR) 8.4% higher than the S&P 500 (TR) (year-to-date through Aug.31, 2018,) measuring the 5th biggest small cap premium in history since 1995, and is the biggest…

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Mar 21, 2018

The Importance of Understanding your Benchmark

Recent SEBI guidelines have highlighted the issue of flawed benchmark usage in the Indian mutual fund industry. Globally funds are required to be transparent and provide complete information around their investment philosophy and within that requirement of transparency. The fund manager is given the leeway to choose their own appropriate benchmark. First, in this context,…

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Sep 10, 2015

Understanding Your Benchmark

The ability to measure, and to quantify what has been measured, is important for advancement.  It gives us a sense of the current state of things and helps us to gauge the amount of improvement that can be attained.  For example, it does not help if a runner only knows that she runs fast, but…

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Jun 19, 2014

Even Worse Than You Think

It’s commonly recognized that the average active manager underperforms the market. There are good theoretical reasons why this should be true, and ample empirical evidence that it is true. On average during the last ten years, e.g., 59% of large-cap U.S. equity managers lagged the S&P 500, with comparably poor results for mid- and small-cap…

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