{"id":214,"date":"2016-02-15T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T19:06:05","slug":"smart-beta-opportunity-for-investors-challenges-for-asset-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/smart-beta-opportunity-for-investors-challenges-for-asset-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Beta &#8211; Opportunity for investors, challenges for asset managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 4th, I had the good fortune to lead a lively breakfast discussion on Smart Beta, hosted by Moodys Analytics\u2019 subsidiary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copalamba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Copal Amba<\/a>. While most of the attendees were from the product side, i.e. asset managers, there was a growing acknowledgment that the end investors are really looking for solutions that work for them, and are getting overwhelmed by the products being sold to them.<\/p>\n<p>Some key themes that emerged from the discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smart Beta helps investors construct better portfolios that meet their objectives, at a lower cost<\/li>\n<li>Structural and behavioral biases will likely cause factor premia to persist<\/li>\n<li>Its a $12T opportunity, but good product alone is not enough to succeed<\/li>\n<li>Differentiating a fund\/product is increasingly challenging and an overwhelming exercise for investors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Here is the presentation:<\/div>\n<div><iframe src='https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/58287668' width='780' height='639' sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 4th, I had the good fortune to lead a lively breakfast discussion on Smart Beta, hosted by Moodys Analytics\u2019 subsidiary Copal Amba. While most of the attendees were from the product side, i.e. asset managers, there was a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/smart-beta-opportunity-for-investors-challenges-for-asset-managers\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asset-allocation","category-financial-concepts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot-2016-02-15-14.03.23.png?fit=2874%2C1620&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zs9k-3s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focus262.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}