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Identifying Economic Moats Using a Quantitative Lens: The S&P 500 Economic Moat Index
Popularized by Warren Buffett, the term economic moat refers to a company’s sustainable competitive advantage that allows it to preserve market share and generate high profits over the long term. In this analogy, companies are compared to medieval castles surrounded by deep and wide moats, which protected the castles from attack. In the same way,…
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How Sector Neutrality Influences Risk/Return in S&P Dividend Aristocrats
What are the potential benefits of a sector neutral approach to S&P Dividend Aristocrats? S&P DJI’s Rupert Watts and State Street Global Advisors’ Colin Ireland explore the construction and range of potential applications for the S&P Sector-Neutral High Yield Dividend Aristocrats.
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diversification, ETFs, high yield dividend growers, indexing, large-cap equities, mid-cap equities, quality dividend growers, S&P 1500, S&P 400, S&P 500, S&P 600, S&P Composite 1500, S&P Dividend Aristocrats, S&P Sector-Neutral High Yield Dividend Aristocrats, sector neutrality, sectors, small-cap equities, U.S. equities
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- diversification, ETFs, high yield dividend growers, indexing, large-cap equities, mid-cap equities, quality dividend growers, S&P 1500, S&P 400, S&P 500, S&P 600, S&P Composite 1500, S&P Dividend Aristocrats, S&P Sector-Neutral High Yield Dividend Aristocrats, sector neutrality, sectors, small-cap equities, U.S. equities

