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Rallies, Records and Relentless Restlessness: A Tale of Markets in 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, U.S. large caps boast impressive gains: after a rocky start that saw a 19% drawdown, the S&P 500® is up 18% including dividends, as of Dec. 12, significantly above its annualized total return of 10.8% since inception in 1957. The U.S. bellwether also recorded 37 all-time highs this year….
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The Momentum Factor: Thriving beyond U.S. Borders
Many market participants have likely observed that the momentum factor has been among the top-performing equity styles in recent years. At the same time, a notable shift has occurred in regional performance: after years of underperformance, international developed equities are now outpacing U.S. equities—both YTD and over the past 12 months (see Exhibit 1). By…
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Navigating Global Markets with the S&P World Index
What sets the S&P World Index apart when it comes to tracking developed markets around the globe? Explore how extensive coverage, historical consistency, transparency and adaptability are helping global investors make more informed decisions as they seek to uncover opportunities and navigate risks across economic cycles.
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An All-in-One Global Solution: S&P World Index
How can an index help market participants benchmark the developed world? Take a deep dive into the S&P World Index as we explore its coverage and usage, its performance history and why it continues to be a tough index for actively managed funds to beat with S&P DJI’s John Welling and Anu Ganti.
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Navigating Developed Markets: The S&P World Index Explained
Reliable and comprehensive benchmarks are indispensable in a landscape where global diversification is at the forefront. The S&P World Index tracks the performance of large- and mid-cap stocks from 24 developed markets, providing a consistent universe for historical market analysis and implementation of investment strategies. The S&P World Index was launched in 2009, building on…
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S&P World Index: A Global Benchmark for Comprehensive Coverage
Introducing a benchmark that digs deeper into developed markets, with data that extends over several economic cycles. Discover how the S&P World Index sets the standard for developed market indices.
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Is South Korea Crowding Your Emerging Markets Allocation?
Key to evaluating core international equity benchmarks is an understanding of the country exposures offered. Developed and emerging market country classification differences between index providers may lead to notable geographic exposure differences across market segments. One of the most meaningful instances of this involves South Korea, which S&P DJI has classified as a developed market…
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Capturing Global Market Gains Using U.S. Sectors
Almost a decade after the global financial crisis, the S&P Global BMI (Broad Market Index), a measure of the global stock market has gained 234.4% from its bottom on March 9, 2009. As of January 26, 2018, the index level was 33.7% above its pre-crisis high that happened on October 31, 2007. Interestingly, the current…
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The Empowering Ability to be Selective in Emerging Markets
With a recent webinar on China, an ETF.COM article titled “Global Investors Plan To Shun Emerging Markets” caught my eye. The article, written by Rachael Ravesz, noted that 29% of the 4,208 investors surveyed by asset manager Legg Mason planned to move money from Emerging Markets into Developed Markets. The article shared a few reasons…
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A Conventional Down Month
Whenever you want to argue that rising interest rates are bad for the stock market, count June 2013 as a point in your favor. The long end of the US Treasury yield curve notched a -4.07% decline in June (following May’s -6.71% tumble), as rates on the S&P/BGCantor 20+ Year US Treasury Index rose by 66…
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