Scientific Beta

EDHEC Scientific Beta Days North America 2020 is a two-day virtual conference to be held on 15-16 October, 2020 that will focus on the need to question smart strategies, examining a number of themes including Navigating the Factor Zoo: Differentiating between Fake and Robust Rewarded Factors, Redefining Value to Better Account for Intangible Investments, Current Misconceptions in ESG Investing, Reconciling Strong Defensiveness and Low Carbon Objectives, Are all Factor Strategies Equal?, What is the Impact of Non-Factor Risk in Factor Strategy Performance?

Overview

EDHEC Scientific Beta Days North America 2020 is organized by Scientific Beta within the framework of EDHEC Business School, a leading academic institution, as part of its policy of transferring know-how to the industry. This year the conference will be held virtually with sessions streamed live and on-demand.

The two-day conference will include multiple plenary sessions and practical sessions presenting the latest advances in smart beta design and implementation for the benefit of the asset owner and financial advisory communities.

The 2020 edition of the conference will focus on the need to question smart strategies.

The conference will address the following themes:

Program

Day One

Day Two 

> Speaker biographies

Registration

The conference is reserved for asset owners (including pension schemes, charities, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, single family offices and financial executives from non-financial companies) and institutional consultants.

Admission is only valid when confirmed by the organizers, who reserve the right to refuse any registration request in order to preserve the diversity of the audience.

To register, please visit https://eur.cvent.me/5A9E.

Format

Virtual Conference – sessions streamed live and on-demand for 30 days.

About Scientific Beta

Scientific Beta is the smart beta index provider set up by EDHEC-Risk Institute, the applied finance research centre of EDHEC Business School. EDHEC Business School is a private non-profit academic institution established in France in 1906. It ranks amongst the top management schools in Europe and has been distinguished globally for the quality of its management and finance programs. The EDHEC M.Sc. in Financial Markets ranks 1st in the world in the Financial Times Masters in Finance Pre-experience rankings 2017.

EDHEC-Risk Institute set up Scientific Beta in December 2012 as part of its policy of transferring know-how to the industry. Scientific Beta is an original initiative which aims to favour the adoption of the latest advances in "smart beta" design and implementation by the whole investment industry. Its academic origin provides the foundation for its strategy: offer, in the best economic conditions possible, the smart beta solutions that are most proven scientifically with full transparency of both the methods and the associated risks. On January 31, 2020, Singapore Exchange (SGX) acquired a majority stake in Scientific Beta. SGX will maintain the strong collaboration with EDHEC Business School, and principles of independent, empirical-based academic research, that have benefited Scientific Beta's development to date.

Within the framework of smart beta offerings, Scientific Beta provides access to smart factor indexes, which give exposure to risk factors that are well rewarded over the long term while at the same time diversifying away unrewarded specific risks. By combining these smart factor indexes, one can design very high performance passive investment solutions.

With a concern to provide worldwide client servicing, Scientific Beta is present in Boston, London, Nice, Singapore and Tokyo. As of December 31, 2019, the Scientific Beta indices corresponded to USD 59.2bn in assets under replication. Scientific Beta has a dedicated team of 52 people who cover not only client support from Nice, Singapore and Boston, but also the development, production and promotion of its index offering. Scientific Beta signed the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) on September 27, 2016. On November 27, 2018, Scientific Beta was presented with the Risk Award for Indexing Firm of the Year 2019 by the prestigious professional publication Risk Magazine. On October 31, 2019, Scientific Beta received the Professional Pensions Investment Award for "Equity Factor Index Provider of the Year 2019."

Contact

Joanne Finlay
E-mail: scientificbetadays@scientificbeta.com