Enthusiasm for market cap-weighted indexing rests on market efficiency. In short, if investors believe they can’t consistently profit from the inefficient pricing of securities, they should aim to ...

Far from being a replacement for the solid foundation of an index based on market capitalization, fundamental index strategies can act as a diversifier by removing some beta or broad market exposure.

SEATTLE & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Russell Investments and Research Affiliates announced today the launch of a new index series based upon Research Affiliates’ unique Fundamental Index ...

Fundamental indexing has become the latest style of investing with ETFs, and many who prefer this type of weighting feel that the traditionalists are flawed. Fundamental indexers believe that the ...

Charles Schwab Investment Management (CSIM) has already turned the world of ETF commission free trading upside down and now it wants to shake things up even more. The San Francisco, CA-based company ...

Q: As a private investor interested in your Couch Potato portfolios, I am looking to add some fundamental index funds. Is the only exchange-traded fund option for these the Powershares, such as PRF?

Investing in broad-based emerging markets has been challenging, but the Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF offers a better approach with its fundamental indexing method. FNDE's strategy, ...

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 ...

Rob Arnott is no shrinking violet. That's a good thing. The editor of the Financial Analysts Journal and creator of the "fundamental index" concept has just come under fire from two of the biggest ...

In our back-testing, interestingly, since we launched these strategies in 2005, we again see about 1.5% sort of being the central tendency of a fundamental index despite actually owning a lot of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (CSIM) announced today that its Schwab Fundamental US Large Company Index Fund (SFLNX) has won a 2020 US Refinitiv Lipper ...