Significados de smart beta em inglês

But those assets are paying a cost to access smart beta strategies.

No matter what you do, don't let anyone tell you it is smart beta.

Growth in the smart beta complex has been extremely rapid.

But the smart beta ETFs are not without risk.

Sadly none of the smart beta categories studies beat their risk-adjusted benchmarks during market downdrafts.

In the most recent year, only equal-weighted, risk-weighted and volatility smart beta funds beat their benchmark.

Index investing is dirt cheap while smart beta, in contrast, adds some fertilizer to that dirt.

Advocates of so-called smart beta strategies say they aim to combine the best elements of active and passive investing.

Other estimates put the overall assets under management of smart beta strategies at north of $500 billion.

Several smart beta funds charge about $50 for every $10,000 invested.

That's possible, and it is also possible that some managers do it better than the smart beta sector as a whole.

ETF issuers hope smart beta indexes will draw investors worried that rising interest rates could reduce the returns on traditional bond funds.

James Montier, of fund managers GMO, thinks the name smart beta amounts to really nothing more than a bit of smart marketing.

The performance of most of the nine existing smart beta funds is largely in line with the comparable indexes so far this year.

The market for smart beta funds, or those that use factors other than market capitalization to weight their holdings, has been rapidly expanding.

Institutional investors allocated three times as many assets to smart beta strategies in 2013 as they did the previous year, Towers Watson said.