All Indices/benchmarks articles – Page 3
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Environmental markets – Fundamentals will prevail
In their latest market update, Ulrik Fugmann and Edward Lees, co-heads of our Environmental Strategies Group, give their take on the sell-off in equity markets. They reaffirm their positive outlook for environmental stocks whose current valuations do not, in their view, reflect the strong fundamentals of the underlying businesses.
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Webinar
Introducing the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan Index Series
The next generation of climate transition indexes for Japan’s net zero.
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Equities: Six Factors Behind Divergence in China-U.S. Markets
Since 2004, the FTSE China H50 Index has largely kept pace with the FTSE Emerging Markets Index as well as U.S. indices such as the S&P 500® and Russell 2000
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Research Report
Thematic equities as an alternative to fully diversified equity portfolios
Thematic equity strategies can also serve as alternative to – or replacements for - global equity portfolios that invest across industry sectors.
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Out of the Shadows: The rise of emerging Asia
Emerging Asia’s stocks and bonds have experienced a lost decade. In the past 10 years, their returns, in US dollar terms, have lagged those of global indices by a considerable margin. And that is despite the fact that these economies accounted for about 70 per cent of world GDP growth over that period.
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China’s vast opportunity set – Best enjoyed undiluted
Allocations to Chinese equity and fixed income should stand alone rather than be part of global or emerging market strategies for investors looking for diversification and potential excess returns from the vast opportunity set that Chinese financial assets represent.
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Absolute return – An absolute must in fixed income
Classical fixed income is already a source of ‘return-free risk’ in this post-pandemic economy awash with central bank stimulus. Reflationary expectations have expedited the rise in interest rates and aggravated the challenges faced by traditional fixed income strategies and indices.
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Why now is the time for active management in US equities
We believe now may be the best time in recent history to invest with an active approach in US equities.
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Avoiding undue equity risk: Preparing for what is ahead in markets
Just one year removed from the start of the pandemic and subsequent economic crisis, investors are again attempting to make sense of market highs. With little place else to turn for potential returns, institutional investors continue to add to equity exposure.
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ESG – Remarkable Progress, Evolving Indices and Futures Growth
The unprecedented economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 virus has led for calls to reshape the global economy to make it fairer and more environmentally sustainable. Campaigners are challenging governments to direct their record stimulus funds towards projects and investments that benefit broader society.
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Spotlight on Euro HY - The changing shape of indices
Significant swings in returns, first negative and then positive, have been a feature of the high yield markets, affecting sectors differently. During that time, the economic disruption Covid-19 has caused has led to many more credit rating downgrades.
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Risk Parity and the Fallacy of the Single Cause
Were risk parity strategies really the cause of the recent correlated stock and bond market sell-off, or one of its victims?
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Disappearing Alpha & Hidden Beta—A Sleight of Hand
Comparing Option Strategy Indices and Hedge Fund Indices before and after the 2008 – 09 financial crisis reveals that what many investors thought was “alpha” was just an illusion.
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Controversial weapons: a call to index providers
We are calling on index providers to exclude controversial weapons from mainstream indices.
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China’s Great Wall of Worry: Myths vs. Realities
China’s rise as a preeminent economic power makes it impossible for globally minded investors to ignore. With the integration of China’s domestic-listed equities and bonds into major global indices, the potential of investing in the broad economy is increasingly opening to the world. It’s time, then, for investors to familiarize themselves with misconceptions that can distort the view of China’s economy and corporate landscape.
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Two quarters of turbulence: what the pre-Christmas plunge and new year rebound say about markets
World equity indices plunged during Q4 last year before staging a powerful recovery, regaining virtually all the ground they had lost. This extraordinary turn of events may look irrational, but it tells a coherent story about the fragility of investor confidence as we navigate the end of this economic cycle and approach the US elections in 2020
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Think Tank Points to U.S. Growth Slowing
Anxious about the U.S. economy? The Conference Board think tank is pointing to growth slowing to 1.5-2.0% but there are no imminent signs of a recession.
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Can CME Bitcoin Futures Be Used Effectively by Crypto-Fund Managers?
See how investors can use CME Bitcoin futures to establish benchmark equity index exposure and develop alpha-generating strategies.
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MSCI China A-share inclusion along the way of China’s transition to quality growth
In June 2017, MSCI announced the partial inclusion of China’s domestically traded, yuan-denominated stocks, or so-called A-shares to MSCI China, MSCI Emerging Markets, and MSCI All Country indices, which is to be implemented from June 2018.
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Italy towards new elections
On May 27th, the designated Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave up his mandate to form a Government.