Part of EDHEC Business School, a not-for-profit organisation, EDHEC-Risk Institute set up Scientific Beta in December 2012 as part of its policy of transferring know-how to the industry. Scientific Beta is an original initiative which aims to favour the adoption of the latest advances in smart beta design and implementation by the whole investment industry. Its academic origin provides the foundation for its strategy: offer, in the best economic conditions possible, the smart beta solutions that are most proven scientifically with full transparency of both the methods and the associated risks.
Available since 2013, the Scientific Beta Indices platform provides investors and asset managers with access to indices that are representative of the Smart Beta 2.0 approach promoted by EDHEC-Risk Institute, enabling them to choose the risks to which their smart beta indices should, or should not be,