iShares Edge Smart Beta ETFs: Efficient access to factor investing

Promoted by iShares by BlackRock

iShares Edge Smart Beta ETFs were launched on the ASX in October 2016 and provide a new, low-cost way to strengthen portfolios by targeting outcomes such as reducing risk or enhancing returns. The suite consists of four minimum volatility and multi factor funds that provide investors efficient access to factors; a simple way to capture many of the time-tested drivers of return present in actively managed portfolios. Factors are broad, persistent drivers of return across asset classes that can help explain why stocks and bonds behave the way they do.

Lower Risk:

iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF
iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ETF

The iShares Edge Minimum Volatility are available across Australian and global equities. They seek to deliver market-like returns with less risk. Importantly, their benchmark indices have lost less during downturns, when broad markets have suffered.¹

Seek Outperformance:

iShares Edge MSCI Australia Multifactor ETF
iShares Edge MSCI World Multifactor ETF

The iShares Edge Multifactor ETFs are also available across Australian and global equities. They offer exposure to companies that have the potential to deliver above-market returns over the long term with similar risk and exposure to the broad market. The funds focus on four time-tested drivers of performance, or factors: Quality (financially healthy firms), Value (inexpensive stocks), Size (smaller companies) and Momentum (trending stocks).

¹ BlackRock, MSCI as of 31 August 2016.