Scientific Beta

Index Universe: "In March this year EDHEC-Risk, the financial research institute of France-based EDHEC business school, announced that it would shortly offer the general public free access to a wide range of data covering so-called “smart beta” equity indices, reportedly the types of benchmark offering index firms the highest profit margins."

Index Universe 15/04/2013

"(…) A battle for commercial influence is intensifying in an industry that, despite its association with transparent, index-tracking funds, has traditionally been coy about the precise nature of its sources of income(...) In March this year EDHEC-Risk, the financial research institute of France-based EDHEC business school, announced that it would shortly offer the general public free access to a wide range of data covering so-called “smart beta” equity indices, reportedly the types of benchmark offering index firms the highest profit margins. (...)"