A Survey of Alternative Equity Index Strategies

31 Pages Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last revised: 28 Dec 2016

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Jason C. Hsu

Research Affiliates; Rayliant Global Advisors; University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business

Tzee-man Chow

Research Affiliates, LLC

Vitali Kalesnik

Research Affiliates Global Advisors

Bryce Little

Citadel LLC

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Date Written: March 3, 2011

Abstract

After reviewing the methodologies behind the more popular quantitative investment strategies offered to investors as passive equity indices, the authors devised an integrated evaluation framework. They found that the strategies outperform their cap-weighted counterparts largely owing to exposure to value and size factors. Almost entirely spanned by market, value, and size factors, any one of these strategies can be mimicked by combinations of the others. Thus, implementation cost is a better evaluation criterion than returns.

Keywords: alternative, equity

JEL Classification: G11

Suggested Citation

Hsu, Jason C. and Hsu, Jason C. and Chow, Tzee-man and Kalesnik, Vitali and Little, Bryce, A Survey of Alternative Equity Index Strategies (March 3, 2011). Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 67, No. 5, September/October 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1696333 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1696333

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