指数基金研究系列之十：自由现金流指数的风格特征与投资价值分析

Group 1 - The Free Cash Flow Index has significantly outperformed the market and dividend indices, showing a strong absolute return attribute and benefiting from market downturns [6][8][10] - The Free Cash Flow Index exhibits a notable large-cap value style, with similar exposure to market, value, and large-cap styles compared to dividend indices [11][12][18] - The Free Cash Flow Index can effectively expand value style investment tools, with Sharpe ratios higher than market and dividend indices [18][21] Group 2 - The Free Cash Flow strategy performs well in environments of rising U.S. Treasury rates or tightening credit conditions, with a strong relative performance during these periods [24][25][26] - The Free Cash Flow Index and dividend style indices have similar periods of outperformance, generally outperforming the market during value style dominance [27][28] - A timing strategy based on U.S. Treasury rates, credit conditions, and style momentum has yielded an annualized return of 19.1% since 2015, surpassing the CSI Cash Flow Index by 4.7 percentage points [30][31] Group 3 - The Free Cash Flow Index focuses on financial quality, excluding financial and real estate sectors, and has a higher turnover rate, making it more sensitive to fundamental changes compared to the dividend index [33][36] - The Free Cash Flow Index has a higher concentration of individual stocks, with the top 10 stocks accounting for over 65% of the index, leading to greater exposure to large-cap value styles [36][37] - The alpha source of the Free Cash Flow Index is significantly driven by industry allocation and timing capabilities, with annualized excess returns of 9.0% and 8.9% for different indices [39][42]