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Investor Interest In And Requirements For Smart Beta ETFs
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are perhaps one of the greatest financial innovations of recent years. Unlike conventional index funds, ETF units trade on stock exchanges at market-determined prices, ...
Author(s):
Felix Goltz, Veronique Le Sourd
Summary:
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are perhaps one of the greatest financial innovations of recent years. Unlike conventional index funds, ETF units trade on stock exchanges at market-determined prices, thereby combining the advantages of mutual funds and common stocks. Most of them represent passive instruments designed to track the performance of a financial index as closely as possible. Recently, the standard practice of using a capitalisation-weighting scheme for the construction of indices has been the target of harsh criticism. Nowadays, growing demand for indices as investment vehicles has led to innovations including new weighting schemes and alternative definitions of sub-segments.
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| Date : | 06/04/2015 |
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Indexes and Benchmarking |
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