Say what you will about smart beta, but, please, do not call it smart beta. With few exceptions, true believers in the fast-growing hybrid of active management and passive investing are adamant that ...

Academic research proves that smart beta strategies can work, but not all of them work the same. As the universe of smart beta products continues to expand, the performance of different single- and ...

At the same time, the U.S. Global Technology and Aerospace & Defense ETF (WAR) celebrates its first anniversary, highlighting its targeted exposure to defense spending and the ongoing AI buildout.

Investors who are nervous about stock-market swings and loathe to put assets in safer bonds are turning to smart-beta strategies. Smart-beta exchange-traded funds have proliferated in the past several ...

The ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF (EQL) made its debut on 07/07/2009, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides broad exposure to the Style Box - Large Cap Blend category of the market.

The First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX ETF (FYX) made its debut on 05/08/2007, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides broad exposure to the Style Box - Small Cap Blend category of the ...

In recent years, smart beta or factor investing has gained considerable traction with pension funds seeking to earn higher risk-adjusted returns from their investments through cheaper and simpler ...

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 ...

The Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF is rated Hold, due to high fees and lack of clear outperformance, versus cheaper alternatives. CALF's strategy of selecting high free cash flow small-caps results ...

In the last three years, about 160 new funds have been launched in the smart beta space. That’s more than one new product per week, said Matt Hougan, CEO of Inside ETFs. Speaking Thursday morning at ...

(Reuters) - U.S. equity investors might be better off getting their smart beta wholesale, or rather via a simple do-it-yourself strategy. That’s the contention of a new research paper which studied ...