Scientific Beta

ETF.com: "Global X has filed for five ETFs tied to indexes created by EDHEC Risk Institute’s Asia arm. The underlying “Scientific Beta” indexes take a multifactor approach and also use multiple weighting methodologies. These will not be the first ETFs in the U.S. to track EDHEC’s Scientific Beta indexes, however. Earlier this year, ETF Securities launched the ETFS Diversified-Factor U.S. Large Cap ETF (SBUS) and the ETFS Diversified-Factor Developed Europe ETF (SBEU)."

ETF.com 23/03/2015

"(...) Global X has filed for five ETFs tied to indexes created by EDHEC Risk Institute’s Asia arm. The underlying “Scientific Beta” indexes take a multifactor approach and also use multiple weighting methodologies. These will not be the first ETFs in the U.S. to track EDHEC’s Scientific Beta indexes, however. Earlier this year, ETF Securities launched the ETFS Diversified-Factor U.S. Large Cap ETF (SBUS) and the ETFS Diversified-Factor Developed Europe ETF (SBEU). (...) EDHEC Scientific Beta won the Best Index Provider Website award at this year’s ETF.com awards. Its informative website contains exhaustive information about its indexes and their underlying methodologies. Moreover, the access to returns series, constituent lists, identifiers and other data are all completely free. That raises interesting issues around investor education and transparency. For example, while many ETF providers go to great lengths to provide investors with extensive data on their funds, the index provider is an independent third party. (...)"