Scientific Beta

Investor's Business Daily: "Global X Scientific Beta Japan (SCIJ) builds its holdings based on a multifactor approach, with contributions from the value, size, momentum and low volatility factors. The result is a portfolio that is highly diversified, but takes noncapitalization-weighted positions in an attempt to outperform the cap-weighted index."

Investor's Business Daily 10/03/2017

"(...) Accuvest, based in California, has $375 million in assets under management. Exchange traded funds are key to its investment team's efforts in "building equity portfolios from the top down and focusing on country selection, rather than stock selection." In an interview with IBD, Garff discussed his best ideas for investing with ETFs in international markets as the cycle of U.S. outperformance gets ever-longer in the tooth. (...) Global X Scientific Beta Japan (SCIJ) builds its holdings based on a multifactor approach, with contributions from the value, size, momentum and low volatility factors. The result is a portfolio that is highly diversified, but takes noncapitalization-weighted positions in an attempt to outperform the cap-weighted index. Relative to the rest of the world, Japan looks interesting due to a combination of high expected earnings growth, lower risk, strong relative strength and average valuations. (...)"