ROUS

ROUS charges a reasonable fee for a complex strategy focused on US large-cap stocks. ROUS' aim is clear: better returns than vanilla cap-weighted indexes and actively managed strategies over a full market cycle. To get there, the fund's index uses 3 popular factors—value, momentum and quality—along with meaningful single-stock size caps and volatility and sector constraints at the portfolio level. In contrast with some peer funds, these factors are considered in concert (rather than independently) to minimize counteraction. The index design described above is consistent with portfolio attributes relative to our cap-weighted benchmark: a bias to mid-caps and value stocks, along with lower beta and modest sector bets. On Oct. 24 2016, the fund name and index name changed to reflect Hartford's acquisition of Lattice (the former issuer and index provider). There were no changes to the investment objectives or index methodology resulting from the change.