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Stock Market Lookahead comments Battle Royale: Active vs passive investing By Jesse Solomon @JesseSolomonCNN December 7, 2014: 9:18 AM ET Active and passive funds are fighting for your money. NEW YORK...
View ArticleDavid Booth beats the market without picking stocks
By Ian Salisbury @Money January 13, 2014: 5:52 PM ET "If you want to hold a market portfolio, that's fine...we think you can do better," says David Booth, chairman and co-CEO of Dimensional Fund...
View ArticleStreet Global Advisors Enhances its Advanced Beta SPDR ETF Offering
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today announced that the SPDR MSCI Quality Mix USA ETF (Symbol QUS) began trading on the NYSE...
View ArticleInvesco PowerShares Expands Industry Leading Smart Beta Suite With a...
Broad and Efficient Commodity Exposure in a Liquid, Transparent and Cost Efficient Vehicle Without a K-1* CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Nov 7, 2014) - Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC, a...
View Article'Active in drag,' a funky riff for index fund investors
NEW YORK Aug 7 (Reuters) - As investors pour more and more money into funds that track indexes, the indexes themselves are getting more esoteric. Challenging the very definition of "index," companies...
View ArticleInvesco PowerShares Celebrates 10th Anniversary of First Smart Beta...
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Dec. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC, a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today joined index provider Research Affiliates...
View ArticleREFILE--Goldman buys Westpeak in drive for 'smart beta' assets
(Changes "fund" to "funds" in second paragraph; removes the word "apart" from third paragraph) By Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's asset-management business...
View ArticleThe Science Of Investing And The Evolving Definition Of Alpha
By Samuel Lee Though it sometimes is hijacked by ideologues, the scientific method works. The most successful societies entrust scientifically trained workers with the most specialized tasks, such as...
View ArticleInvesco expanding suite of liquid alternatives with new mutual funds
Delivering innovative alternative strategies to the retail marketplace backed by 30 years of experience managing alternatives for institutional investors Download image Invesco Ltd. logo....
View ArticleRisk-weighting, versus traditional cap-weighting
LAST YEAR, I WROTE A COLUMN on a phenomenon that has emerged recently in investing called smart- beta strategies. One class of those strategies, called risk weighting, might be attractive to some...
View ArticleGoldman buys Westpeak in drive for 'smart beta' assets
NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's asset-management business has agreed to buy Westpeak Global Advisors, a firm that aims to beat market indexes by using factors other than...
View ArticleSmart Beta: Andrew Whiteley of Provisio
Andrew Whiteley (pictured), director of Hertfordshire-based Provisio, has adopted a new breed of smart beta funds designed to beat the benchmark. In March, Provisio started using two funds run by First...
View ArticleIs There a Next Jack Bogle? Not If You Ask Jack Bogle
Freezing rain is falling on the sidewalks at Vanguard Group’s sprawling suburban campus outside Philadelphia, but it doesn’t slow down company founder John C. “Jack” Bogle as he hustles from his office...
View ArticleGoldman Has Come Up With (Yet) Another New Name for 'Smart Beta'
Goldman Sachs's first exchange-traded fund is also the latest attempt to kill the term “smart beta.” One of the most controversial marketing buzz phrases ever created in finance, smart beta has become...
View ArticleThe Dark Side Of Smart Beta
There’s no such thing as a free lunch on Wall Street. When a widely available investment strategy is expected to generate an excess return over the broad stock market, by definition it has additional...
View ArticleSmart Beta: The Investing Buzzword That Won't -- and Needn't -- Die
It's hard to find an investing expert who likes the term "smart beta." It makes the Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe "definitionally sick." Yet those who want to banish the term find it's...
View ArticleSAFT ON WEALTH -Smart beta, wholesale may beat retail
(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By James Saft n">May 13 (Reuters) - U.S. equity investors might be better off getting their smart beta wholesale, or rather...
View ArticleSmart Beta ETFs Poised for Growth Among Institutional Asset Managers
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Dec 11, 2013) - Institutional investors report they are increasingly using smart beta Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), according to a new study conducted by Cogent Research, a...
View ArticleAdoption of Smart Beta ETFs Increasing Among Institutional Asset Managers
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jan 23, 2014) - Today, 1 in 4 institutional investors report using smart beta ETFs, and adoption among non-users is likely to accelerate in the near future, according to a...
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