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Concentration risk remains a leading concern for investors seeking to diversify their portfolio exposure away from a narrow sleeve of primarily technology-oriented companies. The path of least resistance for Russell 1000-benchmarked[1] investors seeking to mitigate their large cap portfolio concentration risk has been to migrate to an equal-weighted strategy, where each name in the Index is assigned a 0.1% weighting.
However, this default alternative has the potential to create extreme and undesirable results. An equal-weight approach to solve for the portfolio concentration problem no longer serves as a substitute benchmark for a cap-weighted strategy, but it in fact becomes an aggressively active strategy.
Factor investing – a strategy that forecasts future returns based on their exposure to macroeconomic or other factors - has proven to be a viable alternative. The Xtrackers Russell US Multifactor ETF (DEUS) seeks investment results that correspond to the Russell 1000 Comprehensive Factor Index, which is designed to capture exposure to the five well-established investment factors – Quality, Value, Momentum, Low Volatility, and Size. For investors seeking to go beyond the inherent concentration to market cap strategies, DEUS with its 6-year live track record may offer a compelling option for informed diversification[2].
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