M2 Financial, alongside Capital-FORCE ETF Trust, has completed the transition of two Investor's Business Daily (IBD)-licensed ...

Making its debut on 05/08/2007, smart beta exchange traded fund First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX ETF (FNX) provides investors broad exposure to the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend cate ...

FCA employs a rigorous smart-beta methodology emphasizing both growth and value traits and consisting of 50 Chinese stocks.

March was a rough month for smart beta exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as assets under management for alternatively weighted ETFs declined 0.96% on a global basis, but smart beta funds still represent a ...

The Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares (VIGI) made its debut on 03/03/2016, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides broad exposure t ...

FTXL offers exposure to 34 semiconductor stocks, emphasizing gross income, ROA, cash flow, and momentum. Learn more about ...

While smart beta is the hottest thing in the exchange-traded fund world, bond portfolios have yet to catch on. But BlackRock Inc. doesn’t mind being early to that party. The world’s biggest money ...

Beware of the backtests, especially in smart beta indexes. In recently reported analysis, Newport Beach, Calif.-based Research Affiliates found that smart beta index backtesting tends to find superior ...

Smart beta ETFs are emerging as a middle ground between active and passive investing, combining rule-based factor selection with low-cost index fund structures. They aim to outperform traditional ...

Roundtable: KPMG's Simeon Willis, Towers Watson's Stephen Miles, State Street Global Advisors' Richard J Hannam, Cambridge Associates' Alex Koriath and Indexx Markets' Ronan Kearney, debate the ...

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 ...

Rob Arnott used to argue that the popularity of “smart beta” investing strategies often made the stocks they favored too expensive to actually buy. Now, his firm says the time is right. Analysts with ...