Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? With the outlook for US growth uncertain, new smart beta investors in Minimum Volatility and Quality are paying a big premium today for the strategies. This premium is so high that their entire expected long-term return adv

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? With the outlook for US growth uncertain, new smart beta investors in Minimum Volatility and Quality are paying a big premium today for the strategies. This premium is so high that their entire expected long-term return adv

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? With the outlook for US growth slowing, new smart beta investors in Quality and Minimum Volatility are paying a premium today for the strategies. This premium is so high that their entire expected long-term return advantage

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? With the outlook for US growth slowing, new smart beta investors in Quality and Minimum Volatility are paying a premium today for the strategies. This premium is so high that their entire expected long-term return advantage

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? With the outlook for US growth slowing, new smart beta investors in Quality are paying a premium today for the strategy. This premium is so high that their entire expected return advantage is reversed into a major return di

After doing your research on Smart Beta strategies, you now have six better ways to build a large /intermediate cap US equity portfolio than using a cap-weighted index: Equal-weighted, Minimum Volatility, Quality, Value, Momentum and High Dividend Yield. How do you put them together i

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? As may be expected in volatile market conditions, new smart beta investors in Quality and Minimum Volatility are significantly overpaying today for the strategies. They are overpaying by so much, actually, that their entire

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? New smart beta investors in Quality, Minimum Volatility, Momentum and Equal-Weighted are overpaying for the strategies. They are overpaying by so much, actually, that their entire long term return advantage could be wiped o

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? New smart beta investors in Momentum, Equal-Weighted and Quality are overpaying for the strategies. They are overpaying by so much, actually, that their entire long term return advantage could be wiped out over the next fiv

Have the Smart Betas become crowded trades?  How can we tell? New smart beta investors in Equal-Weighted, Minimum Volatility and Quality are overpaying for the strategies. They are overpaying by so much, actually, that their entire expected return advantage over the next five years wi