With Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) sponsors constantly making new types of ETFs available,
there is now a variety of ETFs that provide investors with an opportunity to develop …

Aversion to risk is one of the main factors driving investment decisions. Studies have been
based on either simple decisions in a laboratory setting or real-life decisions viewed in …

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is an expert‐driven system that has been applied to
numerous fields but has yet to be applied to portfolio selection. This study shows how the AHP …

Investors anxiously anticipated the debut of actively managed ETFs in 2008, expecting them
to succeed as well as their counterparts in the mutual fund industry. In the end, the reality …

Fund managers have traditionally chosen from a variety of investing styles to establish the
specific parameters of their portfolios. These styles range from company size, value, or growth …

A new category of exchange-traded funds, which can arguably be referred to as “smart beta
ETFs,” has lately issued a meaningful challenge to traditional, market-value-oriented ETFs. …

An earlier foray into the performance of environmental, social, and governance exchange-traded
funds depicted extremely low risk-adjusted returns achieved at the cost of considerable …

A loss sale of stock allows investors to take a capital loss deduction. However, it has always
been unclear whether it is advisable for individual investors to engage in loss sales of stock …

A. SEDDIK MEZIANI, Ph. D., is Professor of Finance at Montclair State University, Montclair,
New Jersey, USA He is a world-class expert in exchange-traded funds. He specializes in …

At any point in time, an investment strategy is as good as its ability to take advantage of
unusually profitable opportunities or simply reduce exposure to risk. In theory, based on the …