Scientific Beta

Ignites Europe: "The MS Scientific Beta Global Equity Factors Ucits ETF will track a so-called multi-strategy index provided by ERI Scientific Beta, which ranks stocks in equal weight. The fund has been developed as part of Morgan Stanley’s strategic partnership with ERI Scientific Beta, which was agreed earlier this year."

Ignites Europe 11/06/2014

"(...) Morgan Stanley has rolled out a smart beta exchange traded fund in Europe following its agreement of a partnership with index provider ERI Scientific Beta. So reports ETF.com. The MS Scientific Beta Global Equity Factors Ucits ETF will track a so-called multi-strategy index provided by ERI Scientific Beta, which ranks stocks in equal weight. The fund has been developed as part of Morgan Stanley’s strategic partnership with ERI Scientific Beta, which was agreed earlier this year. In February the US company signed a global replication licence with the index firm, allowing it to replicate the ERI Scientific Beta indices, as well as access the evaluation tools and tracking methodology used within the indices. (...) Another fund house to recently enter into a partnership with ERI Scientific Beta is France’s Amundi. The deal resulted in Amundi being granted access to the index firm’s range of smart beta indices in order to develop a suite of smart beta index products and ETFs. According to ETF.com, Amundi plans to launch an ETF tracking ERI Scientific Beta’s multi-strategy index in June.” (...)"