Scientific Beta

Pension Fund Insider: "LGIM has developed the Fund in partnership with Scientific Beta, the provider of factor-based indices established by EDHEC-Risk Institute. The fund uses Scientific Beta's recently launched High Factor Exposure Indices as building blocks for its portfolio."

Pension Funds Insider 27/07/2017

"(...) Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a multi-factor global equity fund with initial investment from Boots Pension Scheme. The fund is 'factor-based' – a style of investing that seeks to identify and harness underlying drivers of performance – or factors – to meet specific objectives. It invests in a diversified portfolio of global equities that exhibit factor characteristics, such as value, low volatility, quality or size. Launched as a pooled vehicle for UK institutional clients, the fund aims to reduce risk relative to the global equity market by diversifying effectively across regions. (...) LGIM has developed the Fund in partnership with Scientific Beta, the provider of factor-based indices established by EDHEC-Risk Institute. The fund uses Scientific Beta's recently launched High Factor Exposure Indices as building blocks for its portfolio. (...)"