How smart-beta tools are helping protect portfolios against market volatility

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Three ETF providers at this year's Smart Beta Breakfast Briefing discuss how the evolution of factor-based strategies are allowing them to improve investors' risk-adjusted returns in uncertain times

Stan Verhoeven, portfolio manager, NN Investment Partners Multi-Asset Factor Opportunities How do you use factors to improve risk/return profiles? Factors (factor investing) offer attractive and diversifying returns and as such the NN (L) Multi Asset Factor Opportunities fund aims to optimally benefit from these attractive characteristics by investing in multiple factors across a broad set of asset classes, aiming for low or negative correlation amongst them. The fund targets a positive return of 1M US Libor +6% over a rolling 12-month horizon with no structural long or short biases ...

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