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FYI: If Chris Brightman at times sounds overly academic for a financial services professional, he can be forgiven.
As chief investment officer of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Research Affiliates, he has helped forge the intellectual foundation for one of the hottest investment concepts to come along in decades – “smart beta” indexing.
Unlike traditional market-weighted indexes, smart-beta indexes employ alternative index constructive measures to create funds that overweight factors such as low-volatility, low valuation, and “quality” earnings and cash flow
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Ted
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