SDD News and Press, ProShares UltraShort SmallCap600 From 08/31/20

The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. – John Kenneth Galbraith Where are you, small caps? Why have you not joined the biggest market rally of all time? I'm not talking about how the S&P 500 is doing, of course, or the Nasdaq. Whatever thos...

In each of the past three calendar years, small cap stocks in the U.S. have lagged their large cap counterparts by roughly 6-7% per year. This trend accelerated even more dramatically in the first quarter of 2020 as small caps underperformed large caps by over 10%-a magnitude larger than any q...

By Ansh Chaudhary The ETF Deathwatch decreased in size in May. Sixteen exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 32 funds were removed. Twenty-one of those funds were removed due to increased health and 11 were due to asset managers closing their funds. That so many fun...

Finance students learn that small company investments that can provide excess returns versus less risky large cap, blue-chip stocks. The ‘size factor’ is one of the original components that Eugene Fama and Ken French used to develop their 3-factor model. It worked for quite s...

By Jonathan Liss The spark for today's conversation was an article that my guest, Victor Haghani , posted to Seeking Alpha back on July 18 of this year titled Smart Beta: The Good, The Bad, And The Muddy . In it Victor helped crystallize some of the issues I myself have been s...

If you've been following the market pretty closely, you have no doubt seen the strong outperformance in small caps to kick off 2019. From a longer-term perspective, though, it's pretty amazing to see that small caps have pretty much been trading range-bound with respect to large caps over th...

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA Research reports on share buybacks (and popular hit jobs in the press) tend to focus on the large-cap segment of the market, but the small-cap story is just as important. In a recent post, we showed that although buybacks generate much controversy as a form of c...