Scientific Beta

Financial Investigator: "ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider offshoot of EDHEC Risk Institute, has announced that assets tracking its smart beta indices had reached USD 16.46bn at June 30, 2017. In terms of geographical distribution, these assets come from North America (51%), Europe (46%) and Asia-Pacific (3%). Compared to June 30, 2016, this amount of assets under replication represents growth of 60%."

Financial Investigator 01/08/2017

"(...) ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider offshoot of EDHEC Risk Institute, has announced that assets tracking its smart beta indices had reached USD 16.46bn at June 30, 2017. In terms of geographical distribution, these assets come from North America (51%), Europe (46%) and Asia-Pacific (3%). Compared to June 30, 2016, this amount of assets under replication represents growth of 60%. An important driver of the growth in assets replicating Scientific Beta indices is live performance. The first generation Scientific Beta multi-smart-factor indices created in 2013 have a live track record for over 3 years that shows annualised outperformance of 2.20%. (...)"