Scientific Beta

Benefits and Pensions Monitor: "One of the most prominent pension schemes in Europe, ERAFP, the €23.5 billion additional pension scheme for French civil servants, is awarding a mandate to asset managers for a euro zone mid- and large-cap listed equities portfolio that will be benchmarked to the Scientific Beta Eurozone Max Sharpe Ratio ERAFP SRI Carbon Efficient index."

Benefits and Pensions Monitor 13/06/2016

"(...) One of the most prominent pension schemes in Europe, ERAFP, the €23.5 billion additional pension scheme for French civil servants, is awarding a mandate to asset managers for a euro zone mid- and large-cap listed equities portfolio that will be benchmarked to the Scientific Beta Eurozone Max Sharpe Ratio ERAFP SRI Carbon Efficient index. The EDHEC Risk Institute has been conducting research for several years on the possibility of reconciling financial and environmental performance and the launch of a new series of low carbon indices by ERI Scientific Beta earlier this year marked the practical realization of these research efforts. The mandate must be managed while respecting the socially responsible investing (SRI) principles under which all of ERAFP’s allocations are managed. (...)"