Scientific Beta

Institutional Asset Manager: "ERI Scientific Beta has launched two new families of smart "quality-type" factor indices – High Profitability and Low Investment, allowing investors to benefit from well-documented additional risk premia."

Institutional Asset Manager 21/04/2015

"(...) ERI Scientific Beta has launched two new families of smart "quality-type" factor indices – High Profitability and Low Investment, allowing investors to benefit from well-documented additional risk premia. These new smart factor indices have been available on the www.scientificbeta.com platform since 20 March, 2015. The role of these separate factors relating to firm characteristics has been documented in recent empirical studies. ERI Scientific Beta’s High Profitability and Low Investment factors rely on straightforward and parsimonious indicators, and provide more robust performance benefits than ad-hoc stock picking indicators of “quality” currently used in the industry. (...)"