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Abstract
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The recent surge of new products touting smart-beta strategies has sparked a backlash among some skeptical investors who believe the approach may be another fad akin to portable alpha a decade ago. In an interview with Institutional Investor Journals , Adam Berger and Conor McCarthy of Wellington Management assert that most smart-beta products in the marketplace today will fail to live up to their hype due to inherent flaws, most notably index-like constructions that are poorly matched to investor objectives. Their full research findings appeared in The Journal of Index Investing.
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