Scientific Beta

Financial Advisor: "Since then, Global X has launched a suite of multifactor ETFs designed in partnership with academic researchers at Europe’s EDHEC business school."

Financial Advisor 19/09/2016

"(...) The responsibility for navigating the crowded smart beta waters falls squarely on an advisor’s shoulders, explained Jay Jacobs, director of research for New York-based Global X Funds. “It doesn’t help to have so many names and hundreds of different products in the ETF space,” Jacobs said. “Many of them represent an oversimplification of factor-based investing, but they all sound the same. If you take into consideration how they’re accessing factors, you start to see huge differences within these portfolios. It puts the onus of doing the homework on the advisor or investment professional.” Global X started down the smart beta path in 2007, when it launched a suite of super-dividend ETFs that attempted to offer exposure to the highest-yielding equities in the world. Since then, Global X has launched a suite of multifactor ETFs designed in partnership with academic researchers at Europe’s EDHEC business school. (...)"