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Financial advisers weigh in on factor investing

BY KARREN VERGARA | THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019 12:53PM

No longer the domain of institutional investors, factor investing has become ubiquitous in financial advisers' investment strategies - and many do not recognise its influence.

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