Smart Beta: Single Factor vs. Multi-Factor Approaches
July 29, 2015 at 16:31 PM EDT
Smart Beta products have become increasingly popular over the past few years as a way to combine passive and active investing. As of December 2014, there were more than 700 smart beta exchange-traded products around the world, encompassing $529 billion in assets and about one-third of equity ETP flows, according to BlackRock’s estimates . These trends continue to grow as more and more investors seek investments with better risk-to-reward ratios.