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The Global Industry Classification System (GICS®) celebrated its 25th birthday in August 2024. Jointly maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) and MSCI, GICS offers a common way to talk about...
As we approach Q4, the fixed income markets are taking stock of where they’ve been and what is to come. Markets are expecting a highly anticipated shift in monetary policy to take place before the...
Many investors tend to overweight domestic equities, a phenomenon known as home bias. Mexican investors may be inadvertently neglecting the breadth of global equity markets by focusing primarily on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As fixed income index solutions continue to evolve, one notable innovation has been that of fixed maturity indices. Fixed maturity indices have existed in the U.S. for over 10 years, where growth a...
How has the size and significance of passive investing solutions changed in recent years? In an interview at IMpower Incorporating FundForum, S&P DJI’s Tim Edwards discusses the growth trajectory o...
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