Reducing Stock-Level Risk With Equal-Weight Funds
Equal weight, the index methodology that assigns approximately the same weights to all of the benchmark’s components, is one of the oldest…
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Slew of Equal-Weight ETFs Hit Record Highs
A slew of equal-weight exchange traded funds (ETFs) hit record highs on Tuesday. The PowerShares Russell 1000 Equal Weight Portfolio (NYSEArca: EQAL)…
No Denying the Rise of Smart Beta ETFs
“Smart beta” might be one of the most vilified terms in the history of financial markets, but vernacular aside, there is no…
Smart-Beta ETFs Could Give Active Managers A Run for Their Money
Investors have quickly adopted alternative index-based or smart-beta exchange traded funds, largely at the expense of actively managed funds, and the trend…
Equal-Weight Russell 1000 ETF Continues Shining
The PowerShares Russell 1000 Equal Weight Portfolio (NYSEArca: EQAL) is one of the newest equal-weight exchange traded funds on the market, but…
Business is Booming for Smart Beta ETFs
Smart or strategic beta exchange traded funds have garnered plenty of criticism, mostly due to the verbiage assigned to these funds, but…
Shopping for Different Discretionary ETF Ideas
After being a laggard in 2014, the consumer discretionary sector has roared back with vengeance in 2015. The Consumer Discretionary Select Sector…
A Fast Start for a new Equal-Weight ETF
There has been a flurry of new exchange traded funds coming to market in recent months, but one ETF that quietly debuted…
Draper Talks ETF Index Construction
Invesco PowerShares Managing Director Dan Draper discussed exchange traded fund construction and the advantages of looking beyond cap-weighted indexes with ETF Trends…
New ETF Takes a Sophisticated Approach to Equal Weighting
Equally-weighted exchange traded funds are the least complex and the oldest of the non-cap weighted ETF group. Investors have poured billions of…