Scientific Beta

ETF Express: "ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider offshoot of EDHEC Risk Institute, has launched a “pay for what you get” approach to index pricing that will disrupt the traditional model of fixed fees on assets under management and enable investors to relate their fees directly to smart beta index performance. The non-profit academic institution writes that it seeks to provide the best research with favourable conditions to allow investors to invest in the best conditions possible."

ETF Express 27/05/2016

"(...) ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider offshoot of EDHEC Risk Institute, has launched a “pay for what you get” approach to index pricing that will disrupt the traditional model of fixed fees on assets under management and enable investors to relate their fees directly to smart beta index performance. The non-profit academic institution writes that it seeks to provide the best research with favourable conditions to allow investors to invest in the best conditions possible. “That is how ERI Scientific Beta made EDHEC Risk Institute’s foundational pledge of transparency a reality. This transparency enabled the risks and robustness of strategies whose performance is essentially made up of simulated track records to be challenged. As such, all the data on ERI Scientific Beta’s flagship Scientific Beta Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy indices, with the notable inclusion of historical composition, has been made available to investors without restriction. “The new pricing proposition is part of ERI Scientific Beta’s investor-friendly approach which has enabled it to attract more than USD10 billion in assets under replication for its smart beta indices in three years.” (...)"