What are Smart Beta ETFs?

What are Smart Beta ETFs?What are Smart Beta ETFs?

What are Smart Beta ETFs? Luciano Siracusano, Chief Investment Strategist for WisdomTree talks about Smart Beta Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

About WisdomTree

WisdomTree launched its first ETFs in the United States in June of 2006 and in Europe in October of 2014. Globally, WisdomTree is currently the sixth largest ETP provider with strategies spanning asset classes and countries around the world. A smart beta innovator, WisdomTree pioneered the concepts of fundamentally weighted indexes and active ETFs—and is currently an industry leader in both categories. WisdomTree is listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker: WETF.

WISDOMTREE EUROPE

The European platform of WisdomTree is spearheaded by veterans of the ETP industry Nik Bienkowski and Hector McNeil, who have more than 24 years’ experience within the sector between them. WisdomTree completed the acquisition of Boost, a specialist European short and leverage ETP issuer, in April 2014.

Varför investera i ETFer?

Varför investera i ETFer? WisdomTrees Chief Investment Strategist Luciano Siracusano är en av branschens varmaste förespråkarna för börshandlade fonder, ETFer.

I nedanstående video förklarar han hur de fungerar och varför de är av värde för investerare.

 

 

 

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ: WETF) is a New York-based exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (”ETP”) sponsor and asset manager. WisdomTree launched its first ETFs in June 2006, and is currently the industry’s fifth largest ETF provider in the United States.[4][5] WisdomTree sponsors 92 distinct ETFs that span asset classes and countries around the world. Categories include: U.S. and International Equity, Currency, Fixed Income and Alternatives. WisdomTree’s largest ETF in terms of AUM is the WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund NYSE: HEDJ, which had over $20.39 billion on December 28, 2015. The ETFs invests in European equities but hedges out currency risks due to the changing exchange rates between the US Dollar and the euro.[6][7] WisdomTree was one of the pioneers for the concept of fundamentally weighted ETFs and active ETFs and is currently an industry leader in both categories.[4][8] WisdomTree is the only publicly traded asset manager exclusively focused on the ETP industry. WisdomTree manages approximately $44.5 billion in ETF assets under management, as of February 23, 2016.[2]