MSCI USA Risk Weighted Index – ETF Tracker

The index is based on a traditional market cap weighted parent index, the MSCI USA Index, which includes US large and mid cap stocks. The index reweights each security of the parent index using a rules-based methodology so that stocks with relatively smaller average market capitalization and lower risk weightings based on the index provider’s methodology constitute a higher percentage of the index. The risk weighting of each security is calculated using the inverse of its historical variance, estimated based on three years of weekly return data. The index seeks to provide negative exposure to two systematic factors, the size factor and volatility factor, by emphasizing stocks with smaller average market capitalization and lower realized volatility than its parent index.