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 ...

An increasingly popular asset class, investors shouldn't pay significantly higher fees for these strategies than market-cap-weighted alternatives, which capture the same performance drivers and can ...

Most of the glowing analysis of so-called smart beta ETFs focuses on individual funds and how they offer advantages over their conventionally designed counterparts that weight securities by market ...

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 ...

ETFGI, an independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs and ETPs ecosystem, reports assets invested in Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a record US$1.22 ...

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 ...

Wells Fargo Asset Management, until recently one of the few large managers without quantitative investment management capabilities, is planning to roll out a lineup of smart beta funds following the ...

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 ...

January 2017 has ended having 1,208 smart beta equity ETFs/ETPs, with 2,034 listings, assets of $534 Bn, from 150 providers listed on 37 exchanges in 32 countries. Smart beta equity ETFs/ETPs gathered ...

LONDON — December 30, 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 ...