Smart beta

Smart beta investment portfolios are long-only rules-based investment strategies that aim to outperform a capitalization-weighted benchmark. A comprehensive analysis of smart beta strategies has found that smart beta strategies have underperformed by 1% on average since launch.

The term smart beta was originally coined by Willis Towers Watson in 2006 referring to the fundamental index.

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