Scientific Beta

IFA Online: "The EDHEC-Risk Institute has devised what it describes as a new and free approach to smart beta investing. The Institute has launched 30 flagship indices which allow investors to choose different risk criteria to which they wish or do not wish to be exposed."

IFA Online 03/05/2013

"(...) The EDHEC-Risk Institute has devised what it describes as a new and free approach to smart beta investing. The Institute has launched 30 flagship indices which allow investors to choose different risk criteria to which they wish or do not wish to be exposed. For example, investors will be able to avoid exposure to value, small cap, or liquidity risk factors. (...) The 30 flagship indices under the brand name Scientific Beta are free of charge. The flagship indices represent popular smart beta strategies in the area of diversification, but ERI Scientific Beta will subsequently be producing indices for other strategies (style, fundamentally-weighted, factor replication, and optimal liquid). In a year's time, ERI Scientific Beta intends to have around one hundred free flagship indices that are representative of all the possible smart beta choices. The provision of information on the flagship indices includes daily transparency and allows all investors to replicate the indices without charge. (...)"