Factors Influencing Smart Beta ETFs

Index Development plays a very important role in the investment market. There are diverse types of indices that ought to be calculated. One of the most common indices are the Artificial Intelligence Indices. Here we are going to restrict ourselves to the factors that affect the smart beta indices. There is a plethora of factors that have been observed to influence Smart Beta Indices over a period of time. These factors can be divided into equity factors and others. Here are the factors influencing Smart Beta ETFs.

Equity factors
There are a lot of factors that are known to affect the Smart Beta ETFs. To highlight a few are as following. Value and Small size are one of the major factors in Smart Beta ETFs. Other than these, low volatility, high (dividend) yield, quality, momentum and equal weight are also the important factors. Not to forget high beta, low beta, buyback and growth are some of the other factors. These are all basically the equity factors.

Other factors
Other than the above mentioned equity factors known to be there in the Smart Beta ETFs, there are other well-known factors that are quite unique to the fixed-income markets. One of the factors is Term, basically the bonds having longer maturities earn higher returns in comparison to the bonds having shorter maturities. Another factor is Credit, bonds that come with the lower credit quality ideally end up earning the higher returns in comparison to the bonds that have the higher credit quality. These factors are used by the Index providers in order to construct the factor indexes, which then act as the basis for the Smart Beta ETFs.

All in all, these are the factors influencing Smart Beta ETFs that you must be aware about in general.

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