Scientific Beta

Morningstar Canada: "The equity ETFs launched today are broadly diversified Canadian equity and U.S. equity mandates. International equity and emerging-markets equity ETFs will follow. All of them are based on the Scientific Beta Multifactor-Controlled Volatility series of indexes maintained by the EDHEC-Risk Institute, which has offices in Singapore, London, and Nice and Paris in France."

Morningstar Canada 03/04/2017

"(...) The investment arm of Quebec's giant Desjardins Group has reached out overseas for the indexing expertise that will power its new family of exchange-traded funds. Seven Desjardins ETFs opened for trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and another two have received final prospectus approval. The equity ETFs launched today are broadly diversified Canadian equity and U.S. equity mandates. International equity and emerging-markets equity ETFs will follow. All of them are based on the Scientific Beta Multifactor-Controlled Volatility series of indexes maintained by the EDHEC-Risk Institute, which has offices in Singapore, London, and Nice and Paris in France. (...)"