{"id":42516,"date":"2015-06-03T04:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/source-joins-forces-with-ftse-russell-and-research-affiliates-to-launch-innovative-index-series\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:04:59","slug":"source-joins-forces-with-ftse-russell-and-research-affiliates-to-launch-innovative-index-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/source-joins-forces-with-ftse-russell-and-research-affiliates-to-launch-innovative-index-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Source joins forces with FTSE Russell and Research Affiliates to launch innovative index series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research Affiliates is a global leader in \u201csmart beta[[Broadly defined as those that determine weightings by using a set of rules other than just market capitalisation.]]\u201d and asset allocation. The innovative strategies and asset allocation models developed by the firm over the years have since been incorporated into portfolios by investment professionals throughout the world.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source\u2019s Executive Chairman, Lee Kranefuss, said: <em>\u201cMany investors have been struggling to generate<br \/>\nincome in the current environment, with bond yields low and with most high?yielding equity strategies<br \/>\nbeing overly exposed to low quality or low growth stocks. Our investors said they want a strategy that<br \/>\nfocuses on dividends and is better?structured than what is currently available. This is why we approached<br \/>\nResearch Affiliates and, together with FTSE, have developed these new investment strategies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jason Hsu, Co?founder and Vice Chairman of Research Affiliates, explained: <em>\u201cAccessing high income<br \/>\nremains an unmet need for a good number of investors. We believe these new indices will address this<br \/>\ngap in the market, and they will aim to deliver high dividends from quality companies that can sustain<br \/>\nand potentially grow their dividends. We were delighted to work with Source on these new indices.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caroline O&#8217;Shaughnessy, Managing Director, Sales and Marketing, FTSE Russell, commented:\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>\u201cAs our partnership with Research Affiliates reaches its tenth year, we are proud that our close<br \/>\ncollaboration continues to yield innovative benchmarks that respond to investor needs. Source\u2019s licensing<br \/>\nof the FTSE RAFI Equity Income Index Series reflects this, as alternative benchmarks provide a critical, low<br \/>\ncost investment solution to a wide range of market participants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source is the first ETF provider to license the new FTSE RAFI Equity Income Indices and later this year will<br \/>\nbe launching funds that provide exposure to them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Research Affiliates and FTSE have been working together since 2005 and strategies linked to indices<br \/>\ndeveloped by the two firms have approximately US$ 75 billion of assets under management[[Data by Research Affiliates and FTSE, as at 31 March 2015.]].<\/p>\n<p>Source UK Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source, one of the largest providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) in<br \/>\nEurope, has worked with FTSE Russell and Research Affiliates to create the FTSE RAFITM Equity Income Index Series, a new family of indices targeting high dividend?paying stocks which have also been screened to favour sustainable income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1718,1671,1651,1437,1691,2234,1720,1952,2118,1738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}