Scientific Beta

ETF Express: "Morgan Stanley this week announced the launch of a new ETF, the MS Scientific Beta Global Equity Factors UCITS ETF on its FundLogic platform. The ETF provides exposure to the Scientific Beta Developed Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy Equal-Weight Index and is the first ETF to be launched between Morgan Stanley and ERI Scientific Beta. (...) Coincidentally, this week Amundi also announced that it too had launched a similar ETF on NYSE Euronext Paris to provide investors with exposure to the Scientific Beta Developed Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy ERC strategy index."

ETF Express 16/06/2014

"(...) Morgan Stanley this week announced the launch of a new ETF, the MS Scientific Beta Global Equity Factors UCITS ETF on its FundLogic platform. The ETF provides exposure to the Scientific Beta Developed Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy Equal-Weight Index and is the first ETF to be launched between Morgan Stanley and ERI Scientific Beta. Its inclusion on the FundLogic platform demonstrates the depth of interest in smart beta products that continues to build among institutional investors. (...) Coincidentally, this week Amundi also announced that it too had launched a similar ETF on NYSE Euronext Paris to provide investors with exposure to the Scientific Beta Developed Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy ERC strategy index. Amundi has an existing range of single “Smart Beta” strategies which can be used by investors as “allocation bricks” according to their market outlook: Minimum Volatility, Mid Cap, Small Cap, Growth, Value and High Dividend. The new ETF offers long-term investors a robust and transparent solution which, by combining different developed market global equities strategies, allows them to go one step further. The Scientific Beta Index created by EDHEC-Risk aims to outperform the equivalent market capitalization weighted index by blending four main risk factors (value, size, low volatility and momentum) with five popular smart beta diversification strategies.” (...)"