Scientific Beta

Investor Strategy: "Academically driven global index provider Scientific Beta has taken strides in its commercialisation with its latest offering. (...) The 93-per-cent owned SGX subsidiary, which maintains a close alliance with its now minority EDHEC-affiliated Risk Institute partner, last week (June 8 AET) announced the launch of two indices designed to track stocks which perform relatively well in periods of trade tension and pandemics."

Investor Strategy 08/06/2022

"(...) Academically driven global index provider Scientific Beta has taken strides in its commercialisation with its latest offering. (...) The 93-per-cent owned SGX subsidiary, which maintains a close alliance with its now minority EDHEC-affiliated Risk Institute partner, last week (June 8 AET) announced the launch of two indices designed to track stocks which perform relatively well in periods of trade tension and pandemics. (...) Noel Amenc, Scientific Beta’s chief executive and founder, said the new indices were like all of the firm’s indices, “based on academic research, notably on teleworkability and firm-level exposure to pandemic diseases for the pandemic indices and the tradability of goods and risks relating to trade policy in the case of the trade tensions indices”. He said: “The distinguishing feature of Scientific Beta’s thematic indices is their robustness. The indices are robust to the conditions in which they are designed to operate, rather than being produced through in-sample optimisation, like many of our competitors’ products.”"