Sentences with phrase «target factor exposures»

Our aim is to help you expand your tool kit with low - cost products that deliver highly targeted factor exposure to help you help your clients meet their specific goals.

Not exact matches

Targets exposure to historically rewarded factors in fixed income securities to help seek better risk - adjusted returns

Targets exposure to a factor that has been a long - term driver of returns, such as momentum, quality, size and value

In such circumstances, a fund may seek to maintain exposure to the targeted investment factors and not adjust to target different factors, which could result in losses.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Apart from strategic implementation to achieve targeted portfolio risk exposure, single - factor smart beta indices can also be implemented tactically to express macro-investment views.

At the heart of smart beta investing is the notion of re-writing investment rules to seek to improve investment outcomes by targeting exposures to intuitive, well understood investment ideas — what quants would call factors.

After evaluating every stock in the applicable universe along each factor, an optimized portfolio is formed to maximize exposure to the targeted factors with a similar level of risk to that of the market.

Just as investors combined blend, growth and value funds in a portfolio, they now have the ability to combine momentum, quality and value factor exposures — more directly targeting these broad, historically persistent drivers of return.

The tool computes the factor exposures of the target asset using the specified factor model and time period, and then explores the combinations of the given alternative assets to find the closest match.

The tool finds the combination of the given assets that most closely clones the factor exposures of the target asset or portfolio based on the selected time period and factor model.

The launch of QARP adds to the existing Xtrackers comprehensive factor indices line - up, which is designed to track the equity market performance of companies that have demonstrated relatively strong exposure to targeted investment style factors: value, momentum, quality, volatility and size.

He explained that targeting a particular factor exposure involves numerous active decisions, which are made by most index providers when constructing the index for a factor fund.

«Invesco's new target date series is one of the few to include active, passive and factor - based strategies along with alternatives exposure in a cost - efficient package,» says John Galateria, head of Invesco's institutional business.

Hartford Funds» approach seeks to achieve volatility targets while avoiding unintended risks and gaining exposure to potentially return - enhancing factors: value, momentum, and quality.

The strategy aims to provide targeted exposure to those factors while maintaining a risk level similar to their respective market benchmark indices, according to BlackRock's announcement.

By this narrow yardstick, even an ETF that tracks the S&P Small Cap 600 could be considered «smart beta» since it provides targeted exposure to the «size» risk factor.

There are strategies targeting single risk - factor exposure (e.g., value, low volatility, momentum, quality, or size), those employing alternative weighting methods (e.g., fundamental, dividend, or equal weight) and a smaller, but expanding, set of multifactor strategies coming to market.

As exposure to poverty is well known to be strongly associated with a variety of negative life experiences, the role that these risk factors appeared to play in the relationship between poverty and alterations in brain development elucidates more specific targets for prevention.

Interventions targeting modifiable risk factors (eg, smoking, inactivity, and poor diet) in adult life have only limited efficacy in preventing age - related disease.3, 4 Because of the increasing recognition that preventable risk exposures in early life may contribute to pathophysiological processes leading to age - related disease, 5,6 the science of aging has turned to a life - course perspective.7, 8 Capitalizing on this perspective, this study tested the contribution of adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood to 3 adult conditions that are known to predict age - related diseases: depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers, hereinafter referred to as age - related - disease risks.