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Smart beta funds fail to match hype

Press review Financial Times "Lionel Martellini, a professor at France’s Edhec Business School, said: “Smart beta is not a free lunch.“A well-diversified exposure to rewarded factors will not always outperform. The promise is instead merely that it will provide superior risk-adjusted performance on average across market conditions in exchange for suffering pain in some market conditions.“ Copyright Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/728384ad-73db-3d61-b1b8-58834ae5fdff 2019