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title: Smarter Beta Investing
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4894322/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4894322
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4894322
featured: 2024-07-17
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Smarter Beta Investing

The article suggests integrating sustainable factors into traditional investing methods without affecting financial performance or diversification, and offers ways to correct sustainable bias in traditional long-short MSCI style factor portfolios.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4894322
- Identifier: SSRN 4894322
- Released: 2024-07-14
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 57 (2024-07-17): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-07-17/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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