Scientific Beta

The webinar, entitled "Smart Beta 2.0: Bringing Clarity to the Smart Beta Offering", will be held on 15 June, 2015 at 2.00pm EST. Market cap-weighted indices are at the cornerstone of passive investments. Interestingly, these indices have not been designed to maximize investment risk/return profiles. This one-hour webinar, organised by ETF Database, aims to provide a better understanding of the potential limits of market cap-weighted indices and how to address them through a robust two-step approach.

The webinar, entitled "Smart Beta 2.0: Bringing Clarity to the Smart Beta Offering", will be held on 15 June, 2015 at 2.00pm EST.

Market cap-weighted indices are at the cornerstone of passive investments. Interestingly, these indices have not been designed to maximize investment risk/return profiles.

This one-hour webinar, organised by ETF Database, aims to provide a better understanding of the potential limits of market cap-weighted indices and how to address them through a robust two-step approach:

1. A focus on factor tilts that have historically generated excess returns over a long-term investment horizon that is supported by strong economic rationale
   
   
2. Index diversification exposure through an uncorrelated multi-weighting strategy

The webinar will be presented by Mike McGlone CFA, FRM, Head of US Research at ETF Securities, and Eric Shirbini, Global Product Specialist at ERI Scientific Beta.