Scientific Beta

ETF Stream: "Scientific Beta said being able to integrate ESG policies into investment strategies is now a prerequisite for pension funds as it announced the launch of two multi-factor indices that marry the academic rigour of their work on factors with the low carbon aims of new client SACRA, a pension fund for the French insurance sector. The Scientific Beta SACRA US and Eurozone Low Carbon Multi-Factor Indices have been launched this week as part of the reorganisation of the management of SACRA’s equity portfolio."

ETF Stream 07/05/2019

"(...) Scientific Beta said being able to integrate ESG policies into investment strategies is now a prerequisite for pension funds as it announced the launch of two multi-factor indices that marry the academic rigour of their work on factors with the low carbon aims of new client SACRA, a pension fund for the French insurance sector. The Scientific Beta SACRA US and Eurozone Low Carbon Multi-Factor Indices have been launched this week as part of the reorganisation of the management of SACRA’s equity portfolio. Erik Christiansen, a senior consultant at Scientific Beta, said that the smart beta platform provider was seeing increasing demand for factor strategies that take ESG considerations into account. “Over a third of the assets replicating our smart factor indices already apply an ESG and/or low-carbon filter,” he said. (...)"