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Research Affiliates (”RA”) is a research-intensive firm that strives to be the preeminent source of innovative products that add value for the global investment community. Two factors distinguish our company:
  • Commitment to research that results in superior investment products, and

  • Bringing innovative products to the marketplace through strategic affiliations with some of the world’s leading financial institutions.

In pursuing our mission, we recognize that we succeed by helping others succeed.

RA’s fresh and pragmatic thinking is clustered in four distinct investment areas:

Fundamental Index® Strategy
Radical in its simplicity, RA’s approach to equity index composition uses fundamental measures of company size, rather than market capitalization, to weight stocks in an index. more…
  Global Tactical Asset Allocation
RA’s asset allocation strategy augments traditional tactical asset allocation (pioneered by RA) with alternative investments such as commodities, emerging markets, TIPS, and REITs. more…
     
Liability Matching
RA’s liability hedging strategy is designed to aid pensions defease the long-tail liabilities that drive the asset/liability gap plaguing plan sponsors. more…
  Tax Advantaged Portfolio
RA’s tax advantaged portfolio management optimizes tax treatment of equity portfolios. Our tax advantaged portfolios apply optimal loss harvesting, gains management, and other tax minimization strategies to our Fundamental Index® strategies. more…
 


 

January issue published: Was It Really A Lost Decade?

   

WHAT'S NEW

Watch Rob Arnott's 2009 Year-End Review presentation

Read the Fortune article "What's Ahead in the Next Decade?"

Listen to Rob Arnott's King World News Broadcast
interview on 10 January 2010

Read the BBC News article "Can Stock Market Indexes Be Trusted?" in which the editor questions the efficacy of traditional cap-weighted equity indexes

Read the Registered Rep article "The Price is NOT (Always) Right"

Read the Financial Times article "Why Poor Moral Ethics Prove Costly"

Read the Journal of Indexes article Beyond Cap Weight: The Empirical Evidence for a Diversified Beta

Read the press release on the Research Affiliates Awarded Patent for Fundamental Index® Investment Methodology

Read the Wall Street Journal article "Indexing Patent to Test Fund Firms"

Read the Journal of Portfolio Management article "Clairvoyant Value II: The Growth/Value Cycle"

Read the Journal of Indexes article "Bonds: Why Bother?"

View the list of awards for the Fundamental Index metholodgy

 

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