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Indexes and Benchmarking
This programme involves two aspects of research into indices and benchmarks in traditional and alternative investment. The first aspect looks at the quality of indices, the criteria institutions use to select them, and revisits modern portfolio theory to develop innovative approaches to constructing new forms of indices in the traditional and alternative universes. As such, EDHEC-Risk has proposed a proprietary method of style index construction for the alternative universe and launched the first composite hedge fund strategy indices in 2003. In 2010, EDHEC-Risk Institute, on the basis of its research results in the area of index and benchmark construction, set up a spin-off, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks, the goal of which is to make available to investment industry professionals new forms of indices and benchmarks that genuinely add value in terms of both being efficient and representative of risks. The second aspect of this research programme examines the use of index products in the core-satellite approach to investment management.

This programme includes the “Core-Satellite and ETF Investment” research chair, in partnership with Amundi ETF.
Background to the EDHEC-Risk Efficient Equity Indices, and performance data for the FTSE EDHEC-Risk Efficient Index Series.
Background to the FTSE EDHEC-Risk Efficient Eurobloc ERAFP Custom SRI Large Cap Index, and its performance data.
List of research papers by EDHEC-Risk on the subject of equity indices.
Presents data downloads, graphs and the methodological background to the EDHEC-Risk Alternative Indexes.
An overview of external papers on hedge fund indices and a focus on EDHEC-Risk's stance on the eligibility of hedge fund indices for UCITS.
Presents data downloads, graphs and the methodological background to the EDHEC-Risk IEIF Commercial Property Indexes.
Information about the Amundi ETF "Core-Satellite and ETF Investment" Research Chair.