Scientific Beta to offer off-the-shelf Low Carbon option for its flagship multi-smart-factor indices
Low Carbon filter positions investors perfectly to protect against the risks of the transition towards a low carbon economy
Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider, has announced the availability of a Low Carbon option on all of its flagship multi-smart-factor indices.
The Low Carbon option includes a positive filter targeting companies with high carbon intensity, which leads to considerably reducing the indirect contribution to climate change of investment (the financed emissions) and which encourages transition to a low carbon economy; it also reduces exposure to the risks of this transition.
The Low Carbon option also excludes companies that fall severely short of global standards of responsible business conduct and are involved in activities that conflict with global ESG norms, because it would seem inconsistent to focus on the fate of the planet and not of the people who live on it.
Commenting on the launch of the Low Carbon option, Scientific Beta's ESG Director, Frederic Ducoulombier, said, "The Low Carbon option is now a very important fiduciary choice for investors. Scientific Beta's Low Carbon indices have financial risk/reward characteristics that are closely aligned with our standard smart factor indices, i.e. capable of delivering outperformance, through exposure to scientifically-validated risk premia and the reduction of specific, unrewarded risks, but with the additional benefit of a 50% reduction in weighted average carbon intensity over the last ten years and tangible improvements in other measures of risks related to the transition towards a low carbon economy."
An overview of Scientific Beta's Low Carbon option can be found through the link below:
As part of its policy of transferring know-how to the industry, EDHEC-Risk Institute has set up Scientific Beta. 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.
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