Scientific Beta

ETF Express: "Global X Funds, a New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has launched a family of four ETFs based on EDHEC-Risk Institute's Scientific Beta indexes. (...) The Scientific Beta ETFs provide core equity exposure to the US, Europe, Asia ex-Japan and Japan."

ETF Express 14/05/2015

"(...) Global X Funds, a New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has launched a family of four ETFs based on EDHEC-Risk Institute's Scientific Beta indexes. (...) The Scientific Beta ETFs provide core equity exposure to the US, Europe, Asia ex-Japan and Japan. The new funds may be considered alternatives to actively managed funds as they seek to outperform market cap-weighted indices at a fraction of the fees typically charged for active management. The funds seek to deliver outperformance by tracking academically driven multi-factor indexes developed by ERI Scientific Beta. (...)"