Let's say a financial adviser — not you, of course — recommends
a few smart beta ETFs for his client's portfolio.
Sprinkled in are
a few smart beta / factor tilt funds.
Not exact matches
Money managers that rolled out
smart beta ETFs in the last
few years have received just 5 percent of cumulative investor inflows since 2012, with the bulk of new money going to the largest companies, the Goldman report said.
A
few months ago my colleague Sara Shores and I discussed factor investing and
smart beta and what they mean for fixed income markets.
Today I want to revisit a topic I have touched on a
few times:
smart beta and fixed income.
Smart beta strategies are an area of investing receiving significant attention in the past
few years.
In the past
few years «
smart beta» (also known as «alternative
beta» or «strategic
beta») investments have grown rapidly in popularity.
Today I want to revisit a topic I have touched on a
few times:
smart beta and fixed income.
A
few months ago my colleague Sara Shores and I discussed factor investing and
smart beta and what they mean for fixed income markets.
They attribute the added value to
smart beta funds» moderate fees and largely mechanized investment process as well as the modest level of trading, which leads to lower turnover and correspondingly
fewer realized capital gains.
While Franklin's
smart beta ETFs are still too new to pass final judgement on their ultimate success, there are a
few troubling trends.
«Lots of
smart beta, or factor - based ETFs [exchange - traded funds], have been launched recently, but
few strategies, in our opinion, seek to use these products in a constructive way,» says Eric Biegeleisen, BCM's director of Quantitative Research and portfolio manager of the Paradigm strategies.
The 2.0 version of Samsung's voice assistant will be on
smart TVs and fridges, with a
beta in a
few weeks.
After a
few months of
beta testing, Apple's next - gen iOS 11 has arrived, delivering a new file manager, better multitasking on iPads, a revamped Control Centre, a
smarter Siri and much, much more.