With stocks off to a glum start to 2016, the mediocre performance turned in by the S&P 500 last year seems like a distant-though-enticing memory. One of the anomalies spotted among investment factors last year was the outperformance of the growth factor relative to the quality and value factors.
The growth factor can include elements such as long-term earnings and revenue expectations and growth. Factor-based ETFs have increased in popularity. A simple definition of factor-based ETFs is that these funds are not quite actively managed per se, but they go far beyond the passive, cap-weighting routine by using growth, valuation and technical factors.
Should U.S. stocks rebound from their current doldrums with the growth factor leading that rebound, ...
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