Smart Beta has been getting a lot of play lately. As mentioned my last post, it’s a good idea wrapped in a silly label. It’s really an aspect of smart alpha, something some theoreticians will tell you ...

One of the biggest recent trends in investing has been the surge in exchange-traded products employing smart-beta strategies. But one money manager says smart beta is phooey, and he’s developed an ...

Rules-based investing existed for decades before the introduction of so-called smart beta funds about 14 years ago. Since then, however, numerous variants of the strategies have exploded in the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ArthVeda Capital, a top-ranked global asset management firm, announced today the launch of its Smart Alpha™ Framework and its initial suite of eight Indexes. Smart Alpha™ is ...

The founder of smart beta, Rob Arnott, says that it is likely to stop working, and he explains why. Researchers continue to discredit smart beta, even though assets have grown to exceed $500 billion, ...

"Smart beta" exchange-traded funds and mutual funds are everywhere these days. Morningstar has found at least 165 of these products, which attempt to gain broad asset-class exposure using ...

ASYMmetric’s latest passive, rules-based funds seek to bring the benefits of capital preservation to all investors by minimizing risk and volatility while maximizing income and alpha NEW ...