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Tag Archives: S&P Pure Style Indices

Feb 8, 2023

A Selective Approach to Style: The S&P Pure Growth and Value Indices

S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) offers style and pure style indices, which categorize companies based on their growth and value characteristics. We recently published the paper Comparing S&P Style & Pure Style Indices, where we highlighted differences in design, fundamentals and potential applications for both index series. Exhibit 1 summarizes the index construction of…

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Jan 26, 2023

Surveying Style Indices

How can index construction inform style selection? S&P DJI’s Craig Lazzara takes a closer look at the S&P Style and S&P Pure Style Indices and how these different approaches to indexing Growth and Value are designed to help advisors align strategies with client objectives.

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Feb 25, 2019

Combining Value and Growth in a Pure Style Way

When it comes to style investing, pure style indices that select and weight securities based on their style scores tend to be less correlated with each other, have higher return spreads, and higher betas to the benchmark than the traditional market-cap-weighted style indices that have overlapping securities. Additionally, when one style is favored over the…

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Feb 11, 2019

S&P Pure Style Indices: Implications of Higher Return and Correlation Spread

The S&P Style Indices and S&P Pure Style Indices take distinct approaches in differentiating between value and growth factors. In past blogs,[1] we examined how differences in index construction can affect the performance of the indices in both series over a long-term investment horizon. In this blog, we examine how the suite of pure style…

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Jan 30, 2019

Reviewing S&P Pure Style Indices from a Sector Perspective

The S&P Pure Style Indices select and weight securities based on their style scores, unlike the traditional S&P Style Indices. In our previous blog post, we demonstrated that differences in index construction play a major role in the performance differential between the S&P Style Indices and the S&P Pure Style Indices. We estimated that the…

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Jan 28, 2019

S&P Pure Style Indices Versus S&P Style Indices: The Impact of Security Selection and Weighting on Excess Returns

The S&P Style Indices and the S&P Pure Style Indices have distinct long-term performance differences and risk/return characteristics. We highlighted those in a prior blog where we reviewed the two approaches to constructing traditional style and pure style indices. What are the drivers of the return differentials between pure style and style? We know that…

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