More than two-fifths (43%) of investors have increased their factor allocations over the past 12 months, according to a study by Invesco, with 56% of respondents in Asia-Pacific doing so to better incorporate ESG principles. The US asset management group’s Global Factor Investing Study, which was released on Monday, surveyed 241 institutional and wholesale investors collectively responsible for managing over […]

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A comprehensive study of factor-investing has revealed that investors are willing to stick to value investing, despite the recent underperformance of the investing strategy. Value investing is widely known as a strategy to buy the stocks of companies that trade at less than their intrinsic or book value. In simplistic terms, that enables inventors to minimise their downside risk. But […]

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Asian investors, both institutional and wholesale, are increasingly employing factor investing strategies in this volatile investment climate as their sophistication level rises, according to asset manager Invesco. Invesco conducted interviews with 241 institutional and wholesale factor investors globally, which in total manage over US$25 trillion in AUM. According to the survey results, 45% of investors raised allocations of factor investing […]

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This is a sponsored article from Vanguard. Factor-based investing has boomed in popularity in recent years as accelerating technology offers investors a systematic and disciplined approach to enhancing returns and controlling risk. When it comes to portfolio construction, how can factors be used? Since each investor has a unique combination of objectives, constraints, due-diligence capabilities, and belief sets, it is […]

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This is a sponsored article from Vanguard. Interest in factor investing has increased significantly over the past decade due to a number of factors including increased academic research, the push for improved performance in a low-return environment, and a renewed focus on managing risks from multiple angles. New tools and technology have also entered the scene, offering a more systematic […]

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Wholesale investors in Asia Pacific are increasingly adopting factor investing as they become more familiar with the strategy, according to a survey conducted by Invesco. The third annual Global Factor Investing Study released on 6 November stated that more than one-third of wholesale investors worldwide are willing to hire factor investing professionals as barriers like ‘belief in theory’, ‘internal capability’, ‘product […]

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Structured products have been dominating non-traditional and more active indices usage as high net worth demand for index investing becomes more “creative”, an expert with S&P Dow Jones Indices has told Asian Private Banker. “Basically, when we create any new indices for private clients, normally the two most popular channels would be either through ETF product issuers which track our […]

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Asian private banking assets in iShares’ smart beta ETFs have grown to some US$800 million, including US$110 million raised in 1Q18 alone. The staunch inflows come as factor investing gains momentum in the region, and discretionary managers place a greater emphasis on the use of risk and fee budgets. During the first half of 2017, iShares saw significant inflows in […]

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The US asset manager sees factor investing as an increasingly important component in risk management, and is applying the philosophy to create products for private banks, says its Asia ex-Japan head of private bank business and strategic client development. With the help of Columbia Business School professor Andrew Ang, BlackRock aims to use factor investing as a “lens” to construct portfolios without traditional […]

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