ETF - Index Management
Saturday 4 October 2025
Articles
Interview Philippe Goubeault : « We could replace a benchmarked fund by a 'Smart Beta' index »
According to Philippe Goubeault, CFO of Agirc Arrco, 'Smart Beta' strategies can already be part of the asset allocation program of Agirc and Arrco even if their current weight in existing portfolios is not significant ...
Interview Philip Tindall : « We see further development of non-market cap approaches in bonds »
According to Philip Tindall, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, there has been a lot of interest in smart betas area, and investors are beginning to allocate assets - Towers Watson's clients have invested more than £10bn...
Opinion Jean-Claude Guimiot : « There is no 'Smart Beta' strategy within our asset allocation program »
According to Jean-Claude Guimiot, CEO of AGRICA EPARGNE (asset management company of the Group AGRICA), invest in "Smart Beta" index is not on the agenda ...
Pedagogy BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility
The Fund BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility seeks to outperform the MSCI World Index over a full market cycle with risk reduction objective and limiting tracking error risk level. Absolute volatility is targeted to be lower than the MSCI World Index.
Strategy How Smart is ‘Smart Beta' Investing?
Investors increasingly embrace “smart beta” investing, by which we mean passively following an index in which stock weights are not proportional to their market capitalizations, but based on some alternative weighting scheme. Examples include fundamentally-weighted indices and minimum-volatility indices.