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...“It’s reflective of the broadening out of the rally that we are seeing in all financial markets,” amid resilient economic growth, especially in the US, despite higher interest rates....
...risk — in index-tracking vehicles such as exchange traded funds....
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...Cap Equity UCITs ETF (BBSD) for small caps....
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...In Vanguard’s FTSE Global All Cap Index Fund (which I hold within my own Isa), the UK exposure is below 4 per cent, with the US making up nearly 62 per cent....
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...The more fulsome table shows that only 25 per cent of all US equity funds, 26 per cent of global funds, and 37 per cent of emerging market funds managed to beat their indices last year....
...Georgina Brittain, manager of the JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income trust, notes that in the past, mid-caps have traded at a premium to the FTSE 100 as they are considered more nimble and faster growing...
...These are US indices, which I chose because I struggled to find good valuation data on global value and growth indices....
...Still, cheap UK stocks are starting to grab the attention of fund managers....
...“It has to be driven by growth, growth, lots of growth and that’s always a little bit scary when your base case is the blue sky case.”...
...US small caps are suffering their worst performance run relative to large companies in more than 20 years....
...Over at Alphaville, Robin Wigglesworth has written an excellent and thorough piece about how US small cap stocks, depending on how you measure them, have not outperformed US big caps....
...You want to get income and risk mitigation yet still need exposure to the mega cap growth stocks that have been leading the market higher,” he added....
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...Upside caps therefore can differ widely as new funds are launched. At the start of 2022, the popular Innovator US Equity Power Buffer ETF had a 9 per cent cap....
...US department stores offer all kinds of perks to get customers to sign up for their branded credit cards at the register....
...A market cap below €3bn also put off some big fund managers as an investment in Douglas would be too small to move the needle on their portfolios....
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