As the smart or strategic beta landscape has evolved in recent years, there have been plenty of estimates, forecasts and studies calling for exponential growth for those exchange traded funds that ...

LONDON —October 31, 2019 — ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that equity-based Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs ...

Adoption of smart beta has spread to over half of asset owners globally, according to a new survey of allocators by FTSE Russell. Out of 178 retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and other ...

The roles assumed by investment managers, consultants and index providers in the evaluation of smart beta vary depending on AUM tiers of asset owners. According to its third annual global ...

Beta is a measurement of an asset’s risk compared to a benchmark, like the stock market. The market or benchmark used to calculate an asset’s beta always has a beta of 1. Stocks that have a return ...

With investors almost euphoric in their love of index funds, it seems that every active manager is looking to smart-beta, or factor, investments as the antidote. But Goldman Sachs Asset Management is ...

Perhaps it’s fair to say by now that smart beta—or strategic beta, if you will—has gone from fad to bona fide trend, particularly based on numbers released Wednesday by ETFGI showing that global ...