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Where would the market be without share buybacks?

4 January 2019Articlesequities, S&P 500Nick Dunbar

The decline in equity markets seen in the last few months would have been worse without the countervailing effect of buybacks. But by how much?

Giants of the S&P500

4 January 2016Articlesequities, equity indices, fund management, inequality, Russell 3000, S&P 500Nick Dunbar

In 2015, size equalled success in the stock market. But did benchmarking make this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Let’s start by looking at the market capitalisation of S&P 500 companies at the end of the year, with colours according to price change.