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Mar 31, 2026

Systematic S&P 500 Strategies Targeting Stability and Growth Potential

Meet the S&P 500 Futures Intraday Edge Indices, a dynamic index series built to react to changes in market conditions as they seek to capitalize on trends, optimize S&P 500 exposure, maintain stability and enhance growth potential. 

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Mar 24, 2026

Mapping Liquidity across S&P 500 Sectors

Trading linked to S&P 500® sectors has expanded meaningfully in recent years, as market participants increasingly use sector instruments to allocate capital, hedge risk and express relative views within U.S. equities. As participation in index-linked markets has grown, liquidity has become an informative signal, revealing where attention is focused and how risk is being transferred….

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Mar 10, 2026

Why Do U.S. Equities and the S&P 500 Matter in South Korea?

S&P DJI’s Sue Lee examines the importance of the S&P 500 in the global equity opportunity set, key diversification and sector composition differences between notable U.S. equity and Korean benchmarks and the challenges faced by active managers in the U.S. and South Korea to outperform this iconic index. 

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Feb 16, 2026

S&P 500 in Focus: Global Trends and Local Insights

How is the continued evolution of the S&P 500 ecosystem helping market participants around the globe express views and manage risk? S&P DJI’s Tim Edwards and Cboe Global Markets’ Mandy Xu explore how the iconic index reflects global trends and how network effects are helping bring increased transparency and price efficiency to markets around the world. 

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Oct 27, 2025

Why Does Index Liquidity Matter?

Explore how the equity and fixed income trading ecosystems are evolving in response to the continued growth of asset–tracking indices and what it could mean for investors with S&P DJI’s Tim Edwards and Anu Ganti. 

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Apr 30, 2025

How Have the S&P/BMV IPC Leverage and Inverse Indices Performed in Volatile Periods?

Leveraged and inverse indices are widely used by investors looking for a measurement that magnifies performance or hedges against market downturns. For the Mexican equity market, S&P DJI provides market participants with an amplified or inverse view of the S&P/BMV IPC through the S&P/BMV IPC 2X Leverage Daily Index and S&P/BMV IPC Inverse Daily Index,…

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Apr 2, 2025

Applying Nobel Prize-Winning Volatility Research to the S&P 500

In  unpredictable markets, the ability to more accurately model and predict volatility may offer unique benefits when applied to indices used in insurance and structured products. Learn how the S&P 500 Engle Indices measure dynamic exposure to the S&P 500 while applying a predictive volatility control mechanism, which employs a variation of the GARCH model…

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Mar 25, 2025

The S&P 500 Futures Quanto USD-BRL Currency Adjusted Index: Measuring Currency Exchange Risk and Interest Rates in Brazil

In order for a Brazilian market participant to track the S&P 500® through equity index futures, they must first convert Brazilian reais to U.S. dollars and then use U.S. dollars to enter a position in equity futures. This transaction involves two sources of risk: equity risk and currency exchange risk. To address the currency exchange risk…

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Jan 27, 2025

2024 Open Interest Increase in iBoxx-Linked Futures

In 2024, open interest in futures tracking the iBoxx iShares $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index and iBoxx iShares $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index rose considerably. Open interest in futures referencing the iBoxx $ Liquid Emerging Markets Sovereigns & Sub-Sovereigns Index also increased following its June 17, 2024, launch. For the iBoxx iShares $…

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Nov 19, 2024

Exploring the Index Liquidity Landscape

How can the trading ecosystems surrounding indices help to foster transparency and market efficiency? S&P DJI’s Joe Nelesen and Tim Edwards explore why index liquidity matters and how the ecosystems of products tracking S&P DJI indices have evolved across equities and fixed income.

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