There are plenty of competing factors well beyond our control when we invest. (business.financialpost.com)
Active cost also can help investors weigh competing factor - based, or «smart beta,» strategies and compare them to traditional actively - managed funds. (moneysense.ca)
I imagine these large overlapping competing factors, at that point and elsewhere, played havoc with calibration of the model which leaves the adjustments being useful but less than perfect. (realclimate.org)