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FYI: U.S. equity investors might be better off getting their smart beta wholesale, or rather via a simple do-it-yourself strategy. That’s the contention of a new research paper which studied the performance of 164 domestic equity smart beta ETFs from 2003 to 2014. Regards, Ted http://blogs.reuters.com/james-saft/2015/05/13/smart-beta-wholesale-may-beat-retail/
