Assets replicating Scientific Beta's multi-factor indices top USD 16bn

In one year, ERI Scientific Beta has seen its assets under replication grow by 60%

ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider offshoot of EDHEC Risk Institute, has announced that assets tracking its smart beta indices had reached USD 16.46bn at June 30, 2017. In terms of geographical distribution, these assets come from North America (51%), Europe (46%) and Asia-Pacific (3%).

Compared to June 30, 2016, this amount of assets under replication represents growth of 60%.

An important driver of the growth in assets replicating Scientific Beta indices is live performance. The first generation Scientific Beta multi-smart-factor indices created in 2013 have a live track record for over 3 years that shows annualised outperformance of 2.20%¹.

Commenting on the announcement Noël Amenc, CEO of ERI Scientific Beta, said, "Scientific Beta's success over the past four years is due in no small part to the fact that its investment philosophy has proven attractive to major institutional investors throughout the world. This investment philosophy is based on three major principles: the importance of controlling the risks of the investment, because the alternative choice to the cap-weighted index means that one takes different risks, and these risks must be controlled; the essential diversification of the specific risks of the benchmark to produce robust risk-adjusted performance and avoid good long-term investment ideas being called into question by poor short-term performance due to poor diversification; and the concern for robustness, which implies that the design of an index must rely on academic consensus and not on innovations drawn from optimising the returns or the in-sample characteristics of the strategy proposed."

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¹The average live outperformance across all Scientific Beta developed regions of Scientific Beta Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy (Equal Weight and Equal Risk Contribution) indices is 2.19% and 2.21%. This live analysis is based on daily total returns in the period from December 20, 2013 (live date) to June 30, 2017 for all diversified multi-strategy indices that have more than 3 years of track record for all available developed world regions - USA, Eurozone, UK, Developed Europe, Developed Europe ex UK, Japan, Developed Asia Pacific ex Japan, Developed ex UK, Developed ex USA and Developed. The benchmark used is a cap-weighted portfolio of all stocks in the respective Scientific Beta universes.