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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…

 

 
   


WHAT'S NEW

May RAFI® Fundamentals published: "A Middle Ground in the Active/Passive Debate"... more

Read Rob's latest Financial Times column "The Euphemism that Became a Serious Investing Proposition"

Jason Hsu has been named as one of the 20 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds by Institutional Investor News. Jason, along with the other “Stars,” will be honored at the 6th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards Dinner and Ceremony in New York City on 25 June 2008.

 

 

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