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2016 Market Performance through the Lens of Smart Beta

Akash Jain
Associate Director, Global Research & Design
S&P BSE Indices
March 9, 2017 - 3:39 am
Category: Equities, Factors, India

Participants in the Indian equity market in 2016 may have been disappointed with the muted performance by broad equity market indices (the S&P BSE SENSEX was up 3.47% for the year), while other asset classes such as bonds showed strong performance (the S&P BSE Bond Index was up 13.2%).  Where could market participants have found Read more […]

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Dividend and Low Volatility-Investments

Todd Rosenbluth
Director of ETF and Mutual Fund Research
S&P Capital IQ Equity Research
February 9, 2016 - 2:00 pm
Category: Equities, Factors, S&P 500 & DJIA

It’s been a tough start to the new year for the S&P 500®, with a 6.4% decline (as of Feb. 3, 2016).  However, the year-to-date performance of certain factor-focused smart-beta indices tied to subsets of the S&P 500 is relatively bright. The S&P 500 is a well-diversified US equity index, seeking to provide exposure to Read more […]

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