Footnote:
In: Journal of Investment Consulting, Vol. 18, no. 1, 2017
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 9, 2017 erstellt
Description:
Some exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are specifically designed for harvesting factor premiums, such as the size, value, momentum, and low-volatility effects. Other ETFs, however, may implicitly go against these factors. This paper analyzes the factor exposures of U.S. equity ETFs and finds that, indeed, for each factor there are funds that offer a large positive exposure and also funds that offer a large negative exposure toward that factor. On aggregate, all factor exposures turn out to be close to zero, and plain market exposure is all that remains. This finding argues against the concern that factor premiums are being arbitraged away rapidly by investors in ETFs