Smart Beta
The authors provide practitioners with a comprehensive guide to equity smart beta investing.
Can we create a simple and clean equity portfolio by separating alpha from beta?
The last 18 months have not been kind to factor investors, and multi-factor products — with an almost 20% decline — have provided little relief.
Smart beta has an especially strong reality distortion field, says Nicolas Rabener.
Does the CFA charter add value? Why does everyone hate finance and what can be done about it? The leading Enterprising Investor posts from May address these questions and more.
Dave Nadig of ETF.com talks to Paul Kovarsky, CFA, about exchange-traded funds (ETFs), smart beta, their evolution, and the criticism they have evoked.
What were the articles of the year on Enterprising Investor? The 10 leading posts covered a broad spectrum of subjects, from interviewing and cover letter tips, to how to optimize decision making and better understand blockchain technology. They were authored by some of the most influential thinkers in finance, including Michael Batnick, CFA, and Ben Carlson, CFA, and together offer an illuminating view into the state of the investment profession in 2017.
Mark Harrison, CFA, looks at combining factors in multifactor portfolios and considers issues of performance measurement in factor investing, in the third installment of his Shortcuts to Factor Investing series.
In the latest installment of his Shortcuts to Factor Investing series, Mark Harrison, CFA, takes a deeper dive into equities and factor investing's wider applications to other asset classes, including fixed income.
If investors have the option to cheaply replicate their desired exposures to help solve their portfolio problems, then why shouldn't they? Mark Harrison, CFA, curates the latest insights on what is meant by smart beta and factor investing and how they differ.