Institutional Asset Manager: "Scientific Beta and JP Morgan are to launch a new set of solutions for institutional investors to access single factor indices. The new solutions will combine Scientific Beta’s analytical expertise in the area of single-factor equity solutions in the context of completeness portfolios with JP Morgan’s index structuring capabilities which provides its clients with flexible ways to access improved implementation of the portfolio completeness approach. With the growing popularity of equity smart beta solutions it has become crucial for institutional investors to be able to properly measure factor exposure and diversification at the overall portfolio level."
Institutional Asset Manager 11/10/2019
"(...) Scientific Beta and JP Morgan are to launch a new set of solutions for institutional investors to access single factor indices. The new solutions will combine Scientific Beta’s analytical expertise in the area of single-factor equity solutions in the context of completeness portfolios with JP Morgan’s index structuring capabilities which provides its clients with flexible ways to access improved implementation of the portfolio completeness approach. With the growing popularity of equity smart beta solutions it has become crucial for institutional investors to be able to properly measure factor exposure and diversification at the overall portfolio level. Such analysis should ideally be performed using a unique framework designed with a concern for robustness: using consensual factors, instead of engineering new ones, and measuring exposure through factor betas, instead of using error-prone scoring mechanisms. (...)"
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