Investment Week: "The firm's European ETF and Smart Beta Survey 2016, which polled 211 European investment professionals with significant assets under management, found 94% are planning to raise their allocation to smart-beta in the next three years in order to improve the performance of portfolios and manage risk."
Investment Week 21/06/2017
"(...) The firm's European ETF and Smart Beta Survey 2016, which polled 211 European investment professionals with significant assets under management, found 94% are planning to raise their allocation to smart-beta in the next three years in order to improve the performance of portfolios and manage risk. (...) Noël Amenc, professor of finance at EDHEC-Risk Institute and CEO of ERI Scientific Beta, said: "These results indicate investment in smart-beta will increase in the coming years, not only in numbers of investors, but also in terms of assets for each investor, which is not surprising as the current share of investment dedicated to smart-beta strategies is relatively restricted for a majority of respondents." (...)"
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