In this third of the three discussions that took place at the SASB 2016 Symposium, practitioners of a broad range of investment approaches—active as well as passive in both equities and fixed‐income—explain how and why they use ESG information when evaluating companies and making their...

ESG offers a source of new and potentially valuable information for investors, impacting both potential returns and risk. Growing data availability has created the opportunity to integrate ESG into equity portfolios for a variety of investment processes, for both indexing and active management....

There is increasing interest in the idea of allocating across factors instead of traditional asset classes. Allocating across factors has the intuitive appeal of allocating across building blocks that are in theory purer sources of return. In practice, factor-based allocation is not easy, since...

Transparent rules-based index-tracking portfolios that employ alternative weighting schemes have grown rapidly in the last decade, especially within equities. These passively managed factor portfolios can be constructed in many ways, ranging from relatively simple rules-based approaches that...

This chapter delves deeply into an area of rules based portfolio construction which has largely been overlooked. We discuss the impact of screening and weighting decisions on portfolio characteristics and performance. We show how this occurs through the effect of screening and weighting...

This paper focuses on the cross-asset class properties of Quality as a factor, particularly its joint behavior across equities and fixed income. The aim is to provide further insight Quality, a relatively newer factor, and to shed light on the implications for portfolio allocation. The results...

While there is a vast amount of research on IPOs, little research has been done from the point of view of index funds and the excess return opportunity from buying IPOs before the index inclusion date. In this paper, we analyse U.S. listed IPOs, between 2010 and 2018, which were added to the...