The new index, which kicks off Jan. 10, will comprise 30 leading blue-chip companies ranked by market capitalization; Yangzijiang's market cap is about S$4 billion.

新版海峡时报指数将于明年1月10日启用，由按照市值挑选出的30只领先蓝筹股组成，扬子江船厂的市值约为40亿新元。

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Large capitalization stocks should beat small cap stocks next year, they said.

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"Soviero's unique mid-cap fund has proven to be a valuable way to capitalize on this capitalization's range's overlooked and most promising companies, " Lowell says.

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Thus, small capitalization stocks in the past year have done substantially better than their large cap counterparts.

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