Scientific Beta

Institutional Asset Manager: "Smart beta index provider Scientific Beta and SACRA, a pension fund for the French insurance sector, have launched two low carbon multi-factor indices for the US and Eurozone regions. This move comes as part of SACRA's reorganisation of the management of its equity portfolio. The US equity portfolio, and part of the Eurozone equity allocation, are now invested to track the two multi-factor indices from Scientific Beta."

Institutional Asset Manager 08/05/2019

"(...) Smart beta index provider Scientific Beta and SACRA, a pension fund for the French insurance sector, have launched two low carbon multi-factor indices for the US and Eurozone regions. This move comes as part of SACRA's reorganisation of the management of its equity portfolio. The US equity portfolio, and part of the Eurozone equity allocation, are now invested to track the two multi-factor indices from Scientific Beta. In addition to seeking higher long-term financial returns by efficiently harvesting academically grounded risk premia, these indices comply with SACRA's own responsible investment policy and apply a low carbon filter enabling a significant reduction in the strategies' carbon intensities. (...)"