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The S&P 500 Top 20 Select Indices: A Deep Dive into Mega-Cap Performance
In the first part of this blog series, we introduced the S&P 500® Top 20 Select Indices, including their construction and relevance to the equity market. Now, let’s delve deeper into the indices’ historical performance and relative performance to other similar indices. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the S&P 500 Top 20 Select Indices all had similar cumulative…
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Introducing the S&P 500 Top 20 Select Indices
The S&P 500® is widely regarded as the best single gauge of U.S. large-cap equities. Among the 500 companies in the index, the largest names have drawn the most attention due to their outperformance in recent years. To address the increasing interest in mega-cap stocks in the S&P 500, S&P DJI recently launched the S&P…
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S&P Composite 1500®: Providing Efficient, Non-Overlapping Coverage of the U.S. Equity Market
When it comes to measuring the performance of U.S. equity market, some broad market indices have more constituents than others. But having a larger number of constituents does not necessarily lead to significantly wider market capitalization coverage. That’s because broad equity benchmarks are usually market-capitalization weighted, with the majority of the index weight concentrated in…
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