Scientific Beta

Financial Advisor IQ: "Smart beta investments are meant to offer the best of both worlds when it comes to active and passive investment strategies. But they still carry accompanied investment risks, experts say. (...) Earlier this year, the ERI Scientific Beta investing initiative said the "risk implications of smart beta are not fully understood," FA-IQ sister publication Ignites Europe reports."

Financial Advisor IQ 29/10/2018

"(...) Smart beta investments are meant to offer the best of both worlds when it comes to active and passive investment strategies. But they still carry accompanied investment risks, experts say. (...) Earlier this year, the ERI Scientific Beta investing initiative said the "risk implications of smart beta are not fully understood," FA-IQ sister publication Ignites Europe reports. Yet three common risks seem characteristic to smart beta: lack of investment understanding, industry or geographic concentration, and poor investor behavior. (...) But ERI Scientific Beta director Eric Shirbini says investors might unintentionally ignore questions of market exposure when looking at smart beta funds. (...)"