San Antonio, TX, Dec. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (GROW) (NASDAQ: GROW) (the "Company"), a registered investment advisory firm with longstanding experience in global ...

In recent years, smart beta or factor investing has gained considerable traction with pension funds seeking to earn higher risk-adjusted returns from their investments through cheaper and simpler ...

Rob Arnott used to argue that the popularity of “smart beta” investing strategies often made the stocks they favored too expensive to actually buy. Now, his firm says the time is right. Analysts with ...

Data shows that smart beta strategies have been highly volatile and cyclical in the short-to-medium term. These strategies have delivered higher returns and outperformed in a bull market but have also ...

According to EDHEC Business School, 25 per cent of asset managers already use some form of smart beta strategies, with a further 40 per cent considering them in the near future. Cost and efficiency ...

SPDR Russell 1000 Yield Focus ETF uses a smart beta strategy to invest in high-yield dividend stocks, with an expense ratio of 0.20%. ONEY's portfolio has a strong tilt towards mid-cap and small-cap ...

While smart beta is the hottest thing in the exchange-traded fund world, bond portfolios have yet to catch on. But BlackRock Inc. doesn’t mind being early to that party. The world’s biggest money ...

With Nasdaq Smart Beta Indexes, investors now have an easy, customized way to bring new ideas to market. Offering robust research, deep market expertise and the technology to power index methodologies ...

Let’s be blunt. Smart Beta1 is mostly re-packaged, re-branded quantitative management. That’s not to say we don’t like it or think it’s not good for inves.tors. We love quantitative management, ...