Abstract

<b>Overview</b> The recent surge of new products touting smart-beta strategies has sparked a backlash among some skeptical investors who believe the approach may be another fad akin to portable alpha a decade ago. In an interview with <b><i>Institutional Investor Journals</i></b>, <b>Adam Berger</b> and <b>Conor McCarthy</b> of <b>Wellington Management</b> assert that most smart-beta products in the marketplace today will fail to live up to their hype due to inherent flaws, most notably index-like constructions that are poorly matched to investor objectives. Their full research findings appeared in <b>The Journal of Index Investing.</b>

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