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...Cap Equity UCITs ETF (BBSD) for small caps....
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...small-cap Russell 2000....
...Twice a year it publishes an active/passive barometer that benchmarks active funds using a composite of passives rather than an index....
...Even the Asia Pacific index, which doesn’t gel with my atlas. Likewise, MSCI EM Asia, the index my ETF tracks, is supposed to include emerging market countries only....
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...Which is perhaps a symptom of malaise among the small-caps....
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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....
...These differences stem from the very earliest passive equity income funds, which tracked the Stoxx Global Select Dividend 100 index....
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...Funds that equal weight the S&P 500 index — buying the same amount of every stock irrespective of its size — saw record inflows last year, even though this approach hit investors in the pocket as the tech...
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...which is based on the MSCI Fintech innovation index — ticker XFSN....
...It expresses positive views about large caps and negative ones about small caps....
...The current unfavourable alignment includes foreign direct investment at multi-decade lows and persistent outflows of portfolio funds, mounting domestic debt problems, growing economic insecurity among households...
...In terms of index trackers, BlackRock’s iShares offers one for the MSCI India index (up 48 per cent in the past five years) and another for the MSCI India Small Cap (up 67 per cent in the past five years...
...If there were, why would anyone invest in any other type of fund? Small wonder that passive funds have been gaining ground....
...Understand that for a trust to create more value than an index tracker fund its make-up needs to differ from the index, so in terms of performance it will sometimes be ahead and sometimes behind the index...
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