Scientific Beta

Financial News: "In February 2014, the firm launched a partnership with French business school EDHEC to develop smart-beta exchange-traded funds for institutional clients."

Financial News 03/08/2015

"(...)Financial News is delighted to announce the shortlist for its 14th annual Awards for Institutional Asset Management, Europe. The winners will be announced at a gala event in London in October. Here are the nominees in the category of Passive and/or Smart Beta Manager of the Year:
Amundi
The French asset manager is expanding across a number of fronts ahead of its planned IPO later this year, including index management and smart beta. Its assets under passive management grew by €9 billion during 2014 and hit €52 billion by June 30, 2015. It has set a target of nearly doubling this to $100 billion within three years, and plans to shortly launch passive management in Asia. Last September the fund manager launched a series of low-carbon indexes with MSCI, with the Swedish pension fund AP4 and French state fund FRR lined up as first adopters. In February 2014, the firm launched a partnership with French business school EDHEC to develop smart-beta exchange-traded funds for institutional clients. (...)"