Adoption of the factor-tilted funds continues for advisors, with almost one-quarter using them to replace a plain vanilla option.
ETFs were more heavily traded than stocks in 2016, J.P. Morgan's strategies for retirement and PFI white paper lists independent lending solutions.
The investment community is split.
BlackRock’s main quantitative hedge-fund strategies -- which use computer models to sort through vast amounts of data to pick out patterns -- were on track for losses in 2016.