Retail Funds Dive Into Quant-Factor ETFs After $48 Billion Haul
- So-called smart-beta trades offer exposure beyond Big Tech
- Eleven of 13 long-short factor styles are up so far in 2024
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Traders are lavishing billions of dollars on quant-powered stock trades, boosting an investing style that’s struggled to gain traction in an era when simple bets on traditional large-cap indexes have paid off handsomely.
Money managers have sunk nearly $48 billion into so-called equity smart-beta exchange-traded funds this year, either to ride the biggest market winners or to spread their exposures across the equity landscape.