{"id":42969,"date":"2015-06-22T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T22:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/lyxor-and-j-p-morgan-team-up-to-launch-an-innovative-range-of-risk-factor-etfs\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T22:07:32","slug":"lyxor-and-j-p-morgan-team-up-to-launch-an-innovative-range-of-risk-factor-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/lyxor-and-j-p-morgan-team-up-to-launch-an-innovative-range-of-risk-factor-etfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyxor and J.P.Morgan team up to launch an innovative range of risk factor ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This approach reflects Lyxor\u2019s commitment to developing Smart Beta ETFs in order to offer investors risk diversification solutions and targeted tools designed to improve a portfolio\u2019s longterm performance.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaud Llinas, Head of Lyxor ETFs and Indexing, says: <em>\u201cConstantly in search for innovative and wellperforming<br \/>\ninvestment solutions, we are excited to launch these risk factor ETFs with J.P. Morgan.<br \/>\nThe growing interest for risk factor investing stems from investors\u2019 need for portfolio allocation tools<br \/>\nfocusing on the core drivers of equity markets performance. Lyxor\u2019s approach focuses on five factors<br \/>\n(low size, value, momentum, low beta and quality) backed by in-depth research and empirically proven<br \/>\nto be very effective\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The indices were developed by global financial services provider J.P.Morgan, as part of its leading<br \/>\nInvestible Indices business with approximately $25bn of client notional invested. Driven by client<br \/>\ndemand, equity smart beta has been a key area of focus for the group over the last few years,<br \/>\nsupported by research from J.P.Morgan\u2019s Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy team.<\/p>\n<p>Rui Fernandes, Head of EMEA Equities Structuring and Fund linked Products at J.P. Morgan,<br \/>\ncomments: <em>\u201cWe are delighted with this partnership with Lyxor. Investors are seeking more cost<br \/>\nefficient and risk adjusted alternatives as they continue to invest into equities, and ETFs present a<br \/>\nconvenient format in which to do that. These products will be based on J.P. Morgan\u2019s smart beta<br \/>\nindices, which are designed to allow investors to isolate specific sources of risk and return within their<br \/>\nportfolios in an effort to maximize performance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The new ETFs are expected to be listed in the course of the coming month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyxor ETF, the second largest issuer of ETFs in Europe in terms of inflows year to date, with almost<br \/>\nEUR 50 billion in assets under management, is partnering with J.P. Morgan to launch a new range of<br \/>\nrisk factor ETFs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1718,1651,1437,1691,2234,1720,1952,1912,1672,1917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969"}],"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=42969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}