Scientific Beta

Investment Europe: "Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider that has come out of academic work done by EDHEC Risk Institute, has launched an aggressive challenge to the sector by announcing that it will offer investors the option of paying fixed fees or fees based on the performance of its indices."

Investment Europe 26/05/2016

"(...) Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider that has come out of academic work done by EDHEC Risk Institute, has launched an aggressive challenge to the sector by announcing that it will offer investors the option of paying fixed fees or fees based on the performance of its indices. Introducing the new model, Noël Amenc, CEO of ERI Scientific Beta said it came in response to a number of failures that it sees in the traditional approach to charging that is being pursued by other index providers in the market. Although it may be the case that fees have continued to fall because of competition across the industry, they are not necessarily benefitting the end investors because of the nature of performance variations that are possible from smart beta – because of the different methodologies used to develop the indices. (...)"