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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…
  May issue published: A Complete Toolkit for Fighting Inflation
   

WHAT'S NEW

Read the Time magazine article "Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run?"

Listen to an interview with Rob Arnott on King World News Broadcast.

Watch CNBC's "Street Signs" segment where Rob Arnott and Jeremy Siegel debate whether it's still smart to buy stocks

Read the Journal of Portfolio Management article "Clairvoyant Value and the Value Effect"

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

Read the Financial Times article "Bleak Times May Prove Boon for Value"

Research Affiliates won the 2009 Global Pensions Award for Investment Strategy Index Provider of the Year for the RAFI methodology

The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest was awarded Honorable Mention by the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

View the list of awards for the Fundamental Index metholodgy

 

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