So the small-cap market favors collectors who have a bit of money, time and savvy (which can be learned) to spare.
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OMX, the Nordic exchange operator, says it plans a small-cap market.
These nine new ETFs are the first to provide sector-specific exposure within the U.S. small-cap stock market.
It is these attributes that allow the company to function as a small market cap company but still do the clinical development traditionally limited to the domain of big pharma.
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Since 1925, market data indicates that small-cap stocks outperform the broader stock market in January.
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Some emerging market small cap companies have been outperforming their large cap counterparts.
Even the broad-stroke Market Vectors Small Cap ( BRF) has been a dud, down over 8% in the last 12 months.
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The two year old Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) is getting there, with volume averaging around 300, 000.
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As an investment style, small-cap growth traditionally leads the market as the economy and stock market recover from recessions.
Van Eck Global, which runs the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) exchange traded fund is underweight the country.
Market Vectors Small-Cap Russia launched April 15 with a volume of 30, 360 shares.
The iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) is off 3.27% and the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) is off by 5.75%.
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The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF is down 7% and the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap ETF (BRF) is down 10.8%.
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The Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap ETF ( BRF) has also had an impressive run, racking up 8.83% gains in the past month.
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The smaller Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) ETF, however, is down over 1 percent in the first two trading weeks of the year.
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For Brazil, the iShares MSCI Brazil ( EWZ) and the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap ( BRF) ETFs are down 15.2 percent and up 1.34 percent, respectively.
It is for Van Eck Global, a New York fund manager and owners of the Market Vectors Russia (RSX) and newly launched Market Vectors Russia Small Cap (RSXJ) exchange traded funds.
When it created the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap back in 2008, it was a way for investors to tap into the burgeoning middle class in Brazil, and was seen as a compliment to the iShares MSCI Brazil ETF.
Since last July, he has been recommending Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap (BRF) from Van Eck Global.
Historically, small-cap stocks have outperformed the broader market coming out of recessions.
When the ratio is as high as 1.155, the market is signaling that small cap is relatively expensive and large cap relatively cheap.
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Of course mutual fund interest is probably also stoked by the opportunity to amass a sizable position in a small-cap stock without tipping off the market.
In almost every market turnaround, small-cap companies lead the way.
And when the ratio is as low as 0.911, one standard deviation, the market is signaling that small cap is relatively cheap and should outperform in the coming months.
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"As foreign exposure to the Japanese market broadens, small-cap and less-liquid names are getting swept up, " says Lorne Steinberg, chief executive of Montreal-based Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management, a deep-value investor.
Jan Van Eck, the principal of the firm located on Madison Ave in Midtown, was the brain child behind the new exchange traded fund, called the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap .
That is: US Large Cap, US Small Cap, an international, and an emerging market, as well as a REIT.
For the less risk-averse market participant, several small-cap companies in the home entertainment space may be interesting choices as investments.
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The Van Eck Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index Exchange Traded Fund was listed on NYSE Arca this morning. (NYSE Arca: LATM) The ETF includes stocks from Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, among other places, with 42.8% of its weighting in Brazil.
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