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Inside the Annual Style Indices Rebalance: Methodology, Process and Outcomes
The S&P U.S. Style Indices completed their annual rebalance in December 2025. Exhibit 1 shows that the 2025 changes were less pronounced than prior years: turnover for the S&P 500® Growth and S&P 500 Value was lower than the past three annual rebalances. Nonetheless, there were several shifts in index composition. The most significant movement was…
Measure Twice, Cut Once
U.S. large-cap growth has been outperforming this quarter, thanks in part to unusually strong contributions from a few single-stock winners. With higher dispersion among performance, market participants might conclude that it’s a good time to pick stocks or appoint a fund manager to do it for them. However, while the rewards for picking winners may…
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2024 S&P U.S. Style Indices Rebalancing: Key Sector Shifts and Impacts
The S&P U.S. Style Indices underwent their annual rebalancing in December 2024, leading to significant changes in sector exposures. Particularly, the S&P 500 style reclassification led to above-average turnover, as shown in Exhibit 1. While the S&P 500 Growth’s turnover was not unusual, the S&P 500 Value’s turnover was relatively high compared to the historical…
The Relative Value of Insights
Many investors use the start of the year to make predictions for the upcoming year and to think about ways to express views on these themes. This undertaking is not guaranteed to add value: predicting the future is incredibly difficult and success requires correctly predicting both the drivers of future performance and the upcoming impact…
S&P U.S. Indices H1 2023: Analyzing Relative Returns to Russell
After a challenging year in 2022, the U.S. equity market saw a strong turnaround in the first half of 2023, with the S&P 500® up 17% since year-end 2022. Exhibit 1 shows that the rebound was also observed across the cap spectrum. Returns in the second quarter outperformed the first quarter after the market shook…
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Active or Agnostic?
In order to generate value for his clients, an active investment manager must deviate from a passive benchmark—by choosing sectors, or styles, or individual stocks that the manager predicts will outperform. The manager’s value is dependent on the accuracy of his predictions; the better he is at identifying the best sectors, or styles, or stocks,…
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Collections of Factors
Traditional investors think of portfolios (whether active or indexed) as collections of stocks. We can equally well think of portfolios as collections of factors—defining factor in the academic sense, as an attribute with which excess returns are thought to be associated. If we’re correct in assessing these attributes, it should be possible to explain portfolio…
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What Performance Reversals Suggest
Investment results in 2022 were distinctly different from those of the recent past. The S&P 500®, which had doubled in the three years between 2019 and 2021, fell by more than 18% last year, and Exhibit 1 shows that there were regime shifts among factor indices as well. The dominance of Value over Growth in…
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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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Style, Size, and Skewness
Two of the biggest reversals of 2022 compared to 2021 were the outperformance of smaller caps and the outperformance of value compared to growth. Both of these factors helped drive the S&P 500® Equal Weight Index’s recovery last year, as well as a decline in market concentration. As sector and style exposures are not independent,…
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