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Aug 29, 2023

Why Multi-Factor Indices in South Africa?

Burton Malkiel, author of the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, asserted, “The facts suggest that successful market timing is extraordinarily difficult to achieve.”1 Multi-factor indices may be a way of ensuring you are “in the right place at the right time,” participating throughout market cycles without compromising timing or returns. The S&P DJI…

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Jul 21, 2023

Introducing the S&P SmallCap 600 QVML Top 90% Multi-Factor Index

For market participants seeking to measure small-cap, multi-factor equity premia with greater diversification and historically lower tracking error (TE), S&P DJI has recently launched the S&P SmallCap 600® Quality, Value, Momentum and Low Volatility (QVML) Top 90% Multi-Factor Index. In this blog, we will examine the index construction methodology, historic performance, sector composition and factor…

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Apr 18, 2023

The Same, Only Different

In the first quarter of 2023, the best performing of the 17 factor indices featured in our monthly factor dashboard was S&P 500® High Beta (up 12.5%), while the worst performer was S&P 500 Momentum (-3.2%). This may seem odd at first blush, since both indices are, in some sense, performance chasers—Momentum in absolute and…

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Feb 24, 2023

Momentum’s Mystique

I confess some superhero powers underwhelm me (really, Hawkeye, arrows?) or stretch credulity further than Hulk’s hyper-elastic jeans. However, one I can appreciate is Mystique, the shape-shifting mutant who constantly alters her appearance to stay one step ahead. If factors were superheroes, I’d argue the S&P 500® Momentum Index (“Momentum”) and Mystique share commonalities, both…

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Jun 30, 2022

S&P QVM Top 90% Indices: An Examination of the June 2022 Rebalance

This blog is the second in the quarterly blog series we recently introduced to provide transparency into rebalance adds and drops for our S&P Quality, Value & Momentum Top 90% Multi-factor Indices (S&P QVM Top 90% Indices). The S&P QVM Top 90% Indices seek to track constituents in the top 90% of their universe, ranked…

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Apr 13, 2022

Finding a Factor Fit

How can three decades of factor index performance history help investors make more informed decisions and measure the effectiveness of active managers? Join S&P DJI’s Craig Lazzara and Anu Ganti for a closer look at factor performance across a range of market environments. Learn more: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/research/article/factor-indices-a-simple-compendium/

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Apr 4, 2022

S&P QVM Top 90% Indices: Looking under the Hood of the March 2022 Rebalance

Since their launch in April 2021, the S&P Quality, Value, and Momentum Top 90% Multi-factor Indices (the “S&P QVM Top 90% Indices”) have been a great addition to our multi-factor lineup. These indices are designed to track companies in the top 90% of their respective underlying index universe, ranked by their multi-factor score. To support…

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Jan 4, 2022

Focusing on Factor Indices

Factor indices have two important uses. First, they can be used as benchmarks to help clients of specialist managers disentangle how much of the manager’s performance is attributable simply to factor exposure, and how much is attributable to the manager’s stock selection beyond the factor. Second, factor indices can be used as investment vehicles to…

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Oct 4, 2021

Breaking the Market Cap Weight with an Index

When people talk about indexes, they are usually referring to market-cap weighted indexes. Market-cap weighting is based on price and outstanding number of shares. One simply takes the number of shares outstanding and multiplies them by the share price to arrive at market cap. This calculation results in the biggest companies commanding the largest weights….

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Sep 29, 2021

Investing in Real Estate: Global Diversification using a Quantitative Rules-Based Index

A question… Take five major asset classes: U.S. stocks, international stocks, long-term government bonds, Treasury Bills, and REITs. If their respective compound rate of return over the past two decades is compared, which would come in highest? Stocks? Maybe bonds as they’ve ridden yields down to near zero? Nope. REITs win the day. If returns…

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