Several major equity benchmark providers maintain rules-based defensive equity portfolios they call indexes – but they shouldn’t be confused with their cap-weighted counterparts. This paper offers a closer look at defensive equity indexes, including:
Get a better understanding of how these indexes are relevant for your defensive equity investments.
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