October 16, 2025

Equity Factor Insights - October 2025

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Value outperforms and Size lags amid improving macro backdrop

Key highlights:

  • Value and (Small) Size reverse performance in Q3
  • US and Emerging factor performance diverges from rest
  • Broadly, cyclicals exposures drive returns
  • Valuations continue to rerate with a few exceptions

Published quarterly, this report provides actionable insights on global and regional factor performances, sector exposures, rotation drivers and macro sensitivities, using proprietary quarter-end data from the FTSE Global Factor Index Series. It's part of a series of Market Maps reports, available by email as soon as they are published.

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23 October

Equity factor insights: Your quarterly deep dive

Presented by Mark Barnes PhD, Head of Global Investment Research, Americas; Indhu Raghavan, CFA, Manager, Global Investment Research