Tuesday, October 22, 2013

ETF Global® Smart Beta

Today marks the monthly date for the rebalancing of the two ETF Global® Smart Beta Indices:  The ETFG Quant Equity 10 and the ETFG Quant Equity 12 (The Golden Dozen). 

The ETFG Quant Equity 10 (Symbol: ETFGQE10) is comprised of the top 10 equity ETFs as ranked by the ETF Global (Index Sponsor) Quant model.  The selection pool includes all U.S. listed, equity ETFs, excluding levered and inverse funds. The ETFG Quant model assigns a daily ranking to all relevant products using proprietary algorithms and employing dozens of industry metrics to gauge how likely an equity ETF will outperform the market in the foreseeable future.  Selection is performed prior to trading on the third Friday of each month.  The portfolio is equally weighted and reconstitutes monthly on the second trading day following selection.  Here are the components for the next month:

ETFG Quant Equity 10

The ETFG Golden Dozen (Symbol:ETFGQE12) is comprised of the top 12 equity ETFs as ranked by the ETF Global (Index Sponsor) Quant model that also meet the liquidity requirement.  The selection pool includes all U.S. listed, equity ETFs, excluding levered and inverse funds, as well as, those funds with average daily trading value of less than 5M USD. The ETFG Quant model assigns a daily ranking to all relevant products using proprietary algorithms and employing dozens of industry metrics to gauge how likely an equity ETF will outperform the market in the foreseeable future.  Selection is performed prior to trading on the third Friday of each month.  The portfolio is equally weighted and reconstitutes monthly on the second trading day following selection.  Here are the components for the next month:

The Golden Dozen

Tomorrow, we will look at the portfolio characteristics of these two portfolios as well as examine their respective performance statistics.  In the interim, for more detail, information and statistics on this Index and other ETFG Indices, please go to ETFG Indices.

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