Scientific Beta

Benefits and Pensions Monitor: "In the ‘Robustness of Smart Beta Strategies,’ it says that more than five years of live track record shows that, whatever the region, the smart beta strategy implemented outperforms the corresponding cap-weighted indices by an average of 2.1 per cent."

Benefits and Pensions Monitor 13/07/2015

"(...) There is confusion in the area of smart beta because investors cannot be sure whether data is real and accurate or marketing jargon, says Scientific Beta’s 2015 edition of the ‘Journal of Index Investing.’ In the ‘Robustness of Smart Beta Strategies,’ it says that more than five years of live track record shows that, whatever the region, the smart beta strategy implemented outperforms the corresponding cap-weighted indices by an average of 2.1 per cent. But it is in the light of one of the best live track records for smart beta indices that Scientific Beta says that whatever the quality of the live performances exhibited, they cannot replace an in-depth assessment by investors and their consultants of the long-term performances of these. (...)"