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Your S&P Select Industry Indices 2025 Wrapped
Looking back at 2025, some key themes emerged and drove many market conversations. Many different themes—including the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), tariffs, risk of inflation and a focus on defense—set against a backdrop of broader macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological changes created a period of increased market uncertainty across industries. Volatility, as measured by VIX®,…
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Glory or Embarrassment?
Active funds generally lagged their passive benchmarks in 2019, but the market environment in 2020 has already shifted radically. Volatility has skyrocketed as the S&P 500® and other indices have fallen. Ironically, it is precisely in a time such as this, when absolute returns are hard to come by, that relative returns might be most…
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Looking at Sectors With a Style Lens
We’ve previously observed that we can view the world through both a factor and a sector lens, but what about overlaying sectors and style? This is indeed possible, as sectors can serve as implementation vehicles to achieve a particular view on style. Using value and growth scores that are reset annually for every constituent within…