The Smart Beta 2.0 Approach - EDHEC-Risk
The Smart Beta 2.0 Approach - EDHEC-Risk
The Smart Beta 2.0 Approach - EDHEC-Risk
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An ERI Scientific <strong>Beta</strong> Publication — <strong>Smart</strong> <strong>Beta</strong> <strong>2.0</strong> — April 2013<br />
Copyright © 2013 ERI Scientific <strong>Beta</strong>. All rights reserved. Please refer to the disclaimer at the end of this document.<br />
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1. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Risk</strong>s of <strong>Smart</strong> <strong>Beta</strong> Strategies<br />
the investor could decide to take, but which should be documented. It is here again curious that<br />
the promoters of the low-volatility anomaly who are so prone to referring to a scientific article of<br />
Ang et al. which appeared in 2006 in the Journal of Finance forget to mention other articles in<br />
leading academic finance journals that called the results of this article into question, notably by<br />
Bali and Cakici in 2008 in the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Fu in 2009 in the Journal<br />
of Financial Economics and Huang et al. 2010 in the Review of Financial Studies.