Goldman Sachs Asset Management has unveiled an alternative rules-based investing model, Investment Week reports. Chairman Jim O’Neill said the strategy looked to produce lower-risk equity market returns. The approach is based on the principle that higher beta stocks produce poorer risk-adjusted returns than lower beta stocks. The approach seeks to use five-year beta to remove the riskiest stocks from its investment universe by sorting stocks, overlooking market capitalization-based valuations.
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