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Global debt pile creates new chances in nascent market

Press review Financial Times "(…) Though growing in size, the adoption of fixed income smart beta strategies by investors remains at an early stage of development. A survey of 163 European institutional investors published in September by the Edhec-Risk Institute showed that just 17 per cent of the respondents used smart beta for fixed-income investing. About four-fifths of current users commit less than 20 per cent of their total smart beta exposure to fixed-income. Felix Goltz, research director at Edhec-Risk, says investors are concerned that methods developed for the application of smart beta in equity markets may not translate well into fixed income. (...)” Copyright Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/18c65c18-cd5e-11e8-8d0b-a6539b949662 2018