Scientific Beta

Benefits and Pensions Monitor: "Scientific Beta has launched a suite of indices for the satellite sleeve of institutional investors’ portfolios. Its initial satellite offering comprises trade tension and pandemic indices, enabling investors to take tactical bets on particular risks relating to trade tensions and pandemics. The objective of the satellite indices is to offer a robust conditional reaction or outperformance following shocks to these risks."

Benefits and Pensions Monitor 09/06/2022

"(...) Scientific Beta has launched a suite of indices for the satellite sleeve of institutional investors’ portfolios. Its initial satellite offering comprises trade tension and pandemic indices, enabling investors to take tactical bets on particular risks relating to trade tensions and pandemics. The objective of the satellite indices is to offer a robust conditional reaction or outperformance following shocks to these risks. For trade tensions, it is providing trade war and trade peace indices that react positively and negatively to negative shocks to trade tensions, such as tariff announcements. For pandemics, it is providing resilient and vulnerable indices that react positively and negatively to consequences of pandemic outbreaks, such as social distancing measures. (...)"