At the same time, the U.S. Global Technology and Aerospace & Defense ETF (WAR) celebrates its first anniversary, highlighting its targeted exposure to defense spending and the ongoing AI buildout.

Say what you will about smart beta, but, please, do not call it smart beta. With few exceptions, true believers in the fast-growing hybrid of active management and passive investing are adamant that ...

Making its debut on 01/14/2020, smart beta exchange traded fund iShares MSCI USA Quality GARP ETF (GARP) provides investors broad exposure to the Style Box - All Cap Growth category of the market.

Investors who are nervous about stock-market swings and loathe to put assets in safer bonds are turning to smart-beta strategies. Smart-beta exchange-traded funds have proliferated in the past several ...

First Trust FDD earns a strong buy for its smart beta dividend strategy. Vanguard's VGK ETF receives a buy rating for low ...

The First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology ETF (FBT) was launched on 06/19/2006, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Health Care ETFs category of the market.

In recent years, smart beta or factor investing has gained considerable traction with pension funds seeking to earn higher risk-adjusted returns from their investments through cheaper and simpler ...

(Reuters) - U.S. equity investors might be better off getting their smart beta wholesale, or rather via a simple do-it-yourself strategy. That’s the contention of a new research paper which studied ...

In the last three years, about 160 new funds have been launched in the smart beta space. That’s more than one new product per week, said Matt Hougan, CEO of Inside ETFs. Speaking Thursday morning at ...

Academic research proves that smart beta strategies can work, but not all of them work the same. As the universe of smart beta products continues to expand, the performance of different single- and ...

NAPF Local Authority Conference 2015: Merseyside Pension Fund has reported a positive performance from its smart beta equity allocation, while experts pointed to the barriers in using such strategies ...