According to EDHEC Business School, 25 per cent of asset managers already use some form of smart beta strategies, with a further 40 per cent considering them in the near future. Cost and efficiency ...

While tracking the market or looking for stocks with disruptive business models can be legitimate ways to invest, another strategy takes advantage of research by individuals often regarded as pioneers ...

“Let’s assume that the decibel level of Jim Cramer’s voice on CNBC is a proxy for systematic risk in the economy. So, a stock that moves stronger when Jim Cramer is louder corresponds to more ...

With investors almost euphoric in their love of index funds, it seems that every active manager is looking to smart-beta, or factor, investments as the antidote. But Goldman Sachs Asset Management is ...

Smart Beta ETFs typically charge management fees, though these fees are generally lower than those of actively managed funds. These fees cover the cost of maintaining the ETF’s strategy, which is ...

NAPF Local Authority Conference 2015: Merseyside Pension Fund has reported a positive performance from its smart beta equity allocation, while experts pointed to the barriers in using such strategies ...

Rob Arnott used to argue that the popularity of “smart beta” investing strategies often made the stocks they favored too expensive to actually buy. Now, his firm says the time is right. Analysts with ...

Let’s be blunt. Smart Beta1 is mostly re-packaged, re-branded quantitative management. That’s not to say we don’t like it or think it’s not good for inves.tors. We love quantitative management, ...

March was a rough month for smart beta exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as assets under management for alternatively weighted ETFs declined 0.96% on a global basis, but smart beta funds still represent a ...