Equal Weighted Indexes
Our Equal Weighted Indexes provide an alternative to traditional market-cap weighted indexes, helping institutional investors seeking to increase their exposure to smaller companies — and potentially reduce concentration risk — by holding the same dollar value in each stock, regardless of market-cap size.
Target benefitsMeasure opportunity in smaller stocks
Designed to support managed equal-weighted strategies across geographies, sectors and market-cap sizes.
Target smaller companies with potential to generate excess return in their desired market.
Indexes assign equal allocation to all parent index securities, avoiding overconcentration in a few large stocks.
An alternative to traditional market-cap weighted indexes
Equal-weighted indexes are some of the oldest and best-known factor strategies, built to identify specific characteristics of stocks generating excess return.
Our indexes seek to represent a strategy that avoids concentrating too much of the portfolio in a few large stocks — helping investors seeking to take advantage of inefficient markets and gain exposure to smaller stocks.
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Factor focus: size
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