Scientific Beta

Index Universe: "EDHEC has been beating the drum for better index transparency, although it is also a market participant in its own right. The France-based business school launched its own “smart beta” venture earlier this year, offering free index data to investors (...)."

Index Universe 13/08/2013

"(...) IOSCO’s compromise approach was criticised by EDHEC-Risk, which last month said that IOSCO’s principles are “likely to result in an unlevel cross-border playing field and in insufficient index-user protection and information in multiple jurisdictions.” EDHEC has been beating the drum for better index transparency, although it is also a market participant in its own right. The France-based business school launched its own “smart beta” venture earlier this year, offering free index data to investors (here I have a disclosure of my own—I will be doing some paid research and writing work for EDHEC later this year). (...)"