Rocking with RAFI: International Evidence

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Rocking with RAFI: International Evidence

October 2023
Read Time: 25 min
Key Points
  • Inherently tilted toward value, the Research Affiliates Fundamental Index™ (RAFI™) weights constituents based on their economic significance and captures rebalancing alpha by contra-trading against cap-weighted indices’ largest holdings.

  • With negligible incremental risk, a RAFI Global Index hypothetically outperformed a Cap-Weighted Global Index by 40 bps per annum and a Cap-Weighted Global Value Index by 2.2% from 2007 to 2022—a 16-year period covering the long value rout and its aftermath.

  • From 2007 to 2022, RAFI outperformed cap-weighted Broad and Value indices in Emerging as well as Developed ex US markets.

  • In the 2010s, value stocks crashed, relative to growth stocks and to the broad cap-weighted market, but value companies continued to pay out dividends.

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