Scientific Beta

ThinkAdvisor: "Institutional investors are also eager to take advantage of more sophisticated smart beta indexes. Multi-factor, multi-strategy indexes designed by Scientific Beta have accumulated over $8 billion in institutional assets as of the end of July."

ThinkAdvisor 09/12/2015

"(...) The combination of academically supported factors and strategies with quarterly rebalancing can lead to risk-adjusted outperformance afterfees for investors. For example, one of our firm’s ETFs — the ETFS Diversified-Factor U.S. Large Cap Index Fund (SBUS) — tracks a multi-factor, multi-strategy index developed by Scientific Beta (an affiliate of the EDHEC Business School). (...) Institutional investors are also eager to take advantage of more sophisticated smart beta indexes. Multi-factor, multi-strategy indexes designed by Scientific Beta have accumulated over $8 billion in institutional assets as of the end of July. (...)"