Markets Recon

Talking Gold

4 days ago

What’s happening with gold this month? In Talking Gold, we track changes in the gold market by looking at price trends, gold ETF flows, and fundamental drivers for the precious metal.

By State Street Global Advisors In Indexing / Passive, Commodities

Indexing Covered Calls for Insurance

6 days ago

How can an emphasis on rules-based predictability provide greater clarity in risk and return assessment? In an interview with Insurance Asia News, S&P DJI’s Priscilla Luk explores how an index-base...

By S&P Dow Jones Indices In Industry, Sustainability, Indexing / Passive

Explaining Changes to Select Sector Indices

7 days ago

Launched in the late 1990s, the Select Sector® indices measure the performance of S&P 500® sectors; each S&P 500 company is assigned to one of the 11 Select Sector indices, based on the Global Indu...

By S&P Dow Jones Indices In Indexing / Passive

Why SPDR® Galaxy Digital Asset ETFs?

7 days ago

Look beyond cryptocurrency to invest in companies driving the ongoing evolution of the digital asset ecosystem with SPDR Galaxy ETFs.

By State Street Global Advisors In Thematic / Megatrends, Indexing / Passive

A Deeper Dive Into REIT Structures

8 days ago

By Al Otero, Portfolio Manager for HAUS, Armada ETF Advisors

By CAIA Association In Indexing / Passive

Sector Neutrality – An Essential Mechanism within the S&P 500 ESG Index

8 days ago

The S&P 500® ESG Index seeks to provide a measurement of U.S. equities while incorporating ESG factors.1 The index maintains similar industry weights to the S&P 500 while enhancing the index’s sust...

By S&P Dow Jones Indices In Sustainability, Indexing / Passive, Equities

sigma 4/2024: Social inflation: indexing liability claims trends

10 days ago

Social inflation is driving liability claims costs higher, particularly in lines of business exposed to bodily injury claims, and

By Swiss Re Group In Thematic / Megatrends, Sustainability, Indexing / Passive, Macro

Three-Year Live Performance Review of the S&P QVM Top 90% Indices

11 days ago

Three years ago, S&P DJI launched the S&P Quality, Value, and Momentum Top 90% Multi-factor Indices (the S&P QVM Top 90% Indices) across the large-, mid- and small-cap U.S. equities segments. These...

By S&P Dow Jones Indices In Indexing / Passive, Equities

Why Opt for a Transitional Approach to Sustainable Investing?

11 days ago

Our Global Value Transition* strategy identifies firms moving toward sustainability and offers potential benefits over sustainability index funds.

By American Century Investments In Sustainability, Indexing / Passive, Equities