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From the article: "One of the most controversial marketing buzz phrases ever created in finance, smart beta has become an annoying pest that won’t go away. Few can define it, and even fewer like it. Many harbor pure hatred for it. William Sharpe has said it makes him “definitionally sick.” And don’t even ask John Bogle what he thinks of it."
