Samuel Lee is an ETF strategist for Morningstar and editor of Morningstar ETFInvestor, a monthly investment newsletter. Prior to becoming editor, Lee was a fund analyst on Morningstar's passive funds research team, where he covered alternative, dividend, and actively managed ETFs and performed quantitative modeling of ETF strategies.

Lee joined Morningstar in 2008 as a data analyst, where he evaluated ways to measure and improve the firm's data quality.

Lee holds a bachelor's degree in economics, with honors, from Grinnell College.

Morningstar ETFInvestor scans the globe for value and improving fundamentals across virtually all asset classes. Editor Samuel Lee draws upon academic and practitioner research — including Morningstar's sizeable bench of stock, bond and fund analysts — to find reliable drivers of outperformance.

Morningstar ETFInvestor features two real-money portfolios.

The ETF Income Portfolio assembles a high-quality collection of income-generating ETFs with the goal of earning 5% in excess of the 30-day T-bill rate over a full business cycle. The portfolio adheres to a benchmark-agnostic strategy in its search for absolute returns.

The ETF Global Asset Allocation Portfolio, on the other hand, is more benchmark sensitive. It seeks undervalued asset classes with improving fundamentals. The strategy seeks to beat the 60/40 MSCI ACWI/Barclays US Aggregate benchmark over a full business cycle, with the least risk possible.