Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates believes that market capitalization is inherently flawed as it leads to mis-allocation of capital and imbalances like what was witnessed during the 1999 internet ...

Market-cap weighting reflects all market participants’ views, allowing passive investors a free ride on the collective wisdom of all active investors. But there is a risk that it could also lead a ...

traditional market-cap-weighted measures. With all the new ETFs and index funds being launched these days, are people going to pay attention to yet another way to slice and dice the market? Supporters ...

(Fundamental indexers create indexes based on companies' economic scale rather than on its market value a la the traditional cap-weigthed indexes, such as the S&P; the idea is to avoid over-priced ...

If, for example, advocates of Fundamental Indexing are simply saying that they have found a way to beat market-capitalization-weighted indexes — and that they can elucidate this method in a clear ...

We argue that each of these alternatively weighted index implementations, whether labeled fundamental indexing or smart beta, is inherently flawed. We believe price is a destabilizing influence on ...

The fund starts with the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index and selects the largest 1,000 stocks based on their fundamental weight rather than market capitalization. To determine a stock’s fundamental ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on the success of its innovative suite of Fundamental Index mutual funds, Charles Schwab Investment Management, the asset management subsidiary of the Charles ...