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Digging into the Divide in Global Financials
Since the beginning of 2025, the global Financials sector has experienced a significant shift. For several years, across the developed world, the sector had been sailing in roughly the same direction, though generally the U.S. at a higher rate of knots. In 2025, market winds blew the S&P 500 Financials (Sector) and the S&P World…
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Understanding the Israeli Mid-Cap Market
Over extended market cycles, Israel’s mid-cap equities have often delivered strong growth, driven by their greater sensitivity to domestic economic trends. Despite this, mid-cap companies remain underrepresented in many portfolios. The S&P Israel 70 MidCap Index addresses this gap, systematically measuring the mid-cap segment and offering a diversified look at established Israeli mid-cap companies through…
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The S&P Israel 30 LargeCap Index: Uncovering the Performance of Israel’s Large Caps
Opening the Door to Untapped Opportunities As investors broaden their opportunity set beyond the most widely held markets, Israel’s large-cap equities have increasingly drawn attention. The S&P Israel 30 LargeCap Index offers a focused way to access this segment of the market, capturing many of the country’s most liquid companies across sectors such as Information…
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SPIVA Mid-Year 2025 Results Around the World
For more than 20 years, S&P DJI’s SPIVA® (S&P Indices Versus Active) Scorecards have been evaluating active funds’ performance against their appropriate benchmarks on a biannual basis. The results of our regional SPIVA Scorecards continue to show that active outperformance is rare, especially over the long term.1 Spanning across 11 regions, 54% of all equity…
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S&P ADR Indices: Focusing on Foreign Equities
International equities have been gaining attention in 2025. As discussed in a previous blog post, international stocks have been outperforming U.S. stocks so far this year. The S&P ADR Index Series is one of the S&P Dow Jones Indices offerings that focuses on international markets through U.S.-listed securities. American depositary receipts (ADRs) are securities that…
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Turning the Tide: Global Markets Outperforming U.S. Equities
Since 2000, annual returns of international equities have been better than those of the U.S. only nine times, as shown by Exhibit 1. After the Global Financial Crisis of 2009, the S&P United States LargeMidCap outperformed the S&P World-Ex-U.S. Index in most years. However, for the first time since 2017, developed market equities have ended…
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Navigating Developed Markets: The S&P World Index Explained
Reliable and comprehensive benchmarks are indispensable in a landscape where global diversification is at the forefront. The S&P World Index tracks the performance of large- and mid-cap stocks from 24 developed markets, providing a consistent universe for historical market analysis and implementation of investment strategies. The S&P World Index was launched in 2009, building on…
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S&P Israel 100 Index: Reflecting Israel’s Potential
The Israeli stock market has a unique landscape, offering stability and liquidity comparable to other well-established markets, while also providing regional diversification as the only developed market in the Middle East. In recent years, Israel has been a spotlight for technology and innovation, hosting many high-tech companies from industries like cybersecurity, biotechnology and software development….
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Clash of Titans: Diverging Global and Emerging Market Mid-Year Active Performance
Much of recent market commentary has been focused on market concentration concerns,1 thanks to the dominance of mega-cap stocks in the U.S., with the S&P 500® Top 50 outperforming the S&P 500 by 5% for the 12 months ending in September 2024. But as we’ve noted in our inaugural SPIVA® Global Mid-Year 2024 Scorecard, concentration…
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The Importance of Profitability in Australian Small Caps
It has long been evident that small-cap companies with a track record of generating earnings have outperformed relative to their peers. Profitability matters for small-cap companies, and the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Select Index was launched in 2018 to provide a measurement of these companies in Australia. The S&P/ASX Small Ordinaires Select Index—which includes a profitably…
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