Russell Small Cap Defensive Value Index ETF List
Index Description
The index is designed to select securities intended to produce performance that is similar to professional investment managers following a small cap defensive value investment discipline. This discipline focuses on companies that are attractively valued relative to peers and seeks traits such as strong balance sheets and consistent earnings generation as a means of providing defensive exposure. To ensure a small cap set of constituents, the Index starts with the Russell 3000 Index and removes the largest constituents by market cap and a limited set of small capitalization securities to improve investability. The Index includes companies with: (1) consistent earnings as measured by average to low earnings per share volatility over the past five years; (2) stable balance sheets as measured by average to low debt to equity for the prior quarter; and (3) efficient asset utilization as measured by average to high return on assets.
ETFs Tracking The Russell Small Cap Defensive Value Index
ETFs tracking the Russell Small Cap Defensive Value Index are presented in the following table.
* Assets in thousands of U.S. Dollars. Assets and Average Volume as of 01/01/1970
Other Small Cap Value Equities ETFs
ETFdb staff has allocated each ETF in the ETF database, as well as each index, to a single "best-fit" ETFdb Category. Other ETFs in the Small Cap Value Equities ETFdb Category are presented in the following table.
* Assets in thousands of U.S. Dollars. Assets and Average Volume as of 05/25/2012Other Small Cap Value Equities Indexes
Other indexes tracked by ETFs in the Small Cap Value Equities ETFdb Category include:
- Morningstar Small Value Index
- MSCI US Small Cap Value Index
- Russell 2000 Value Index
- S&P SmallCap 600/Citigroup Pure Value Index
- S&P SmallCap 600/Citigroup Value Index
- WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend Index
- WisdomTree SmallCap Earnings Index
- S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index
- Defined Small Cap Value Index
- RAFI Fundamental Small Value Index
- Russell U.S. Small Cap Low P/E Index
- Russell U.S. Small Cap Contrarian Index
- Russell U.S. Small Cap High Dividend Yield Index
Mutual Funds Tracking Russell Small Cap Defensive Value Index
ETF Database categorizes mutual funds for the Mutual Fund to ETF Converter tool. There are no mutual funds benchmarked against Russell Small Cap Defensive Value Index.
