Performance of Sectors, Style, and Capitalization

Sectors

If you're looking for a way to fine-tune your portfolio to pursue aggressive growth in more narrow areas of the market, you may want to consider sector investing1. Sector investing lets you target growth opportunities in industries that interest you – without choosing individual stocks.

How Sector Funds Rotate In and Out of Favor
 

Style and Capitalization

Style and capitalization investing are also popular ways to diversify a portfolio, because in both the short and long term, investment styles (growth and value) and capitalization can behave quite differently from each other.

 
How Style Indexes Rotate In and Out of Favor
 
How Capitalization Indexes Rotate In and Out of Favor at Different Times
 
  1. Because of a narrower focus, sector investing tends to be more volatile than investing across many sectors and companies.
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