Those who favor active investing have pointed to the small cap premium as a justification for their activity, and during the periods of history when small cap companies outperformed the market, it did make them look like heroes but it quickly gave rise to a counterforce, where performance measurement services (like Morningstar) started incorporating portfolio tilts, comparing small cap funds
against small cap indices.
Not exact matches
We reach the same conclusion when we compare Pinnacle just
against Morningstar's «Gold» rated
small cap value funds and Vanguard's SCV
index.
And Third Avenue remains fiercely independent: the active share for the Value Fund is 98.2 %
against the MSCI World
index,
Small Cap Value is 95 %
against the Russell 2000 Value
index, and International Value is 97.6 %
against MSCI World ex US.
OR invest the money into say some
small cap index fund and buy a double short option of that
index expiring in 1 + years to hedge
against your investment.
The Russell 2000
small -
cap index, for example, has a correlation of 0.75
against the S&P 500.