Scientific Beta

ADVISOR.CA: "Investors’ appetite for smart beta ETFs is growing, requiring greater investor information and education, reveals an EDHEC-Risk Institute survey of 180 European ETF investors. The survey results are part of a study entitled “Investor Perceptions about Smart Beta ETFs.”"

ADVISOR.CA 29/09/2016

"(...) Investors’ appetite for smart beta ETFs is growing, requiring greater investor information and education, reveals an EDHEC-Risk Institute survey of 180 European ETF investors. The survey results are part of a study entitled “Investor Perceptions about Smart Beta ETFs.” The study’s key findings: Among ETF users, there’s a high global rate of satisfaction (86%) toward smart beta. Smart beta indexes avoid stock or sector concentration (say 81% of respondents), and diversification across several weighting methodologies allows a reduction of risk and adds value (say 79% of respondents). (...)"