Smart beta refers to
an enhanced indexing strategy that seeks to exploit certain performance factors in an attempt to outperform a benchmark index.
Prior to that, he served as head of quantitative equity for ING Investment Management, (doing business as Voya Investment Management May 1, 2014), building and developing the group and managing more than $ 20 billion in assets with 15 global active, index and
enhanced index strategies for pension funds, variable annuities and mutual funds.
QEP Global Core is
an enhanced index strategy that seeks to outperform the MSCI World Index (net dividends reinvested) ** by 1.0 % per annum (gross of fees) with a low tracking error.
Not exact matches
While these
index - driven
strategies, often delivered in the form of exchange traded funds (ETFs), can help
enhance returns or reduce risk, smart beta doesn't end there.
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strategy term employed to outperform traditional
indexing.
The United States Commodity
Index Fund (NYSEArca: USCI) is the next most popular, with $ 520 million in assets, followed by the GS Connect S&P GSCI
Enhanced Commodity Total Return
Strategy ETN (NYSEArca: GSC), with $ 260 million.
In their November 2016 paper entitled «Applying a Systematic Investment Process to Distributive Portfolios: A 150 Year Study Demonstrating
Enhanced Outcomes Through Trend Following», Jon Robinson, Brandon Langley, David Childs, Joe Crawford and Ira Ross compare retirement portfolio performances for variations of the following three
strategies that may hold a broad stock market
index, a 10 - year government bond
index or cash (3 - month government bills) in the U.S., UK or Japan:
In contrast,
enhanced index funds can weight undervalued stocks more heavily, include a larger proportion of securities in higher - performing sectors, or use other investment
strategies to try and achieve a better return than the
index it tracks.
That said, the
enhanced indexing is often a better
strategy, but not everyone can do it; it would eventually distort the market $ $ Oct 27, 2012
On the other hand, the S&P 500
Enhanced Value
Index is more representative of a high conviction, more concentrated value
strategy.
So - called factor
indexes (and the beta
strategies that follow them), like the MSCI USA
Enhanced Value
Index and iShares Edge MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE), screen for securities using multiple metrics, and weight them not by market capitalization, but by their exposure to value price multiples.
While these
index - driven
strategies, often delivered in the form of exchange traded funds (ETFs), can help
enhance returns or reduce risk, smart beta doesn't end there.
They may use
strategies to try to outperform an
index or seek
enhanced returns.
Strategies may include actively managed stocks, writing covered call options, boutique active mutual / managed funds, rotating sector ETFs, international
index ETFs or passively managed assets with a particular style that is different from the «core» style aimed at
enhancing the bias of the «core».
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enhanced indexing investment
strategies as well as various fixed income portfolios.