Scientific Beta

ETF Strategy: "Assets tracking the smart beta indices of the EDHEC-Risk Institute have risen to over $8bn, with the success of their Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy offering, available in ETF format from Amundi and Morgan Stanley, helping to drive triple-digit growth over the past 12 months."

ETF Strategy 21/07/2015

"(...) Assets tracking the smart beta indices of the EDHEC-Risk Institute have risen to over $8bn, with the success of their Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy offering, available in ETF format from Amundi and Morgan Stanley, helping to drive triple-digit growth over the past 12 months. This success has been underlined by the outperformance of their initial smart beta offering (so-called "Smart Beta 1.0"), which has delivered outperformance of 2.1% over the last five years. Now with the addition of their "Smart Beta 2.0" methodologies, which attempt to provide more advanced diversification of smart beta risks and seek to mitigate unrewarded risks, the institute expects to surpass $12bn in assets under advisement. (...)"