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SciX builds climate equity indices grounded in science and disciplined financial risk management

Asset Owners
Integrate climate risks and objectives into core equity allocations through transparent indices designed to control benchmark deviation, diversification and financial risk.
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Asset Managers
Use SciX indices to develop climate solutions for clients, from transparent Core indices to customized solutions supporting funds, ETFs and mandates...
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Investment Banks
Partner with SciX to create climate-aware financial products for institutional, high net worth and retail markets.

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Rooted in EDHEC research – advancing the science of climate indexing.

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Evaluating the Consistency of Companies’ Decarbonisation Targets in Critical Sectors
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Physical Climate Risk in the European Equity Market: Quantifying Country- Sector Heterogeneity
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Physical Climate Risk in the United States Equity Market: Quantifying State–Sector Heterogeneity
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Our Capabilities

Risk Management
Performance Insights
Climate Risks & Impact
ESG Exclusions
Portfolio Construction

Live analytics for climate-index design that is transparent, fast and financially disciplined.


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From Framework to Function: Inside Included Capabilities

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Risk Management
Measure, decompose and control portfolio risk through SciX’s risk model, including factor and sector exposures, benchmark deviation and extreme risks. Use these insights to identify unintended concentrations, calibrate portfolio constraints and support robust optimization. The objective is to integrate climate considerations without creating exposures or deviations that make an index difficult to maintain over time.
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Performance Insights
Analyze portfolio behavior across historical and simulated outcomes. Decompose performance through factor and sector lenses, run backtests, and place realized results in context using SciX’s simulation engine. Conditional and unconditional simulations help investors assess both absolute and relative outcomes across a broader range of possible market environments before an index specification is implemented.
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ESG Exclusions
Apply investor-specific exclusion lists within a disciplined index-construction framework. Use live analytics to see how exclusions affect benchmark deviation, sector exposures, climate metrics and portfolio constraints, and calibrate the resulting index without losing sight of financial risk.
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Climate Risks and Impact
Assess climate objectives through the measures relevant to each index design, distinguishing resilience, mitigation and other climate objectives rather than treating climate as a single score. Evaluate how climate choices affect portfolio exposures, benchmark deviation and financial risk, and use scenario analysis where appropriate to make assumptions and trade-offs explicit.
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Results-Driven Portfolio Construction
Translate defined climate objectives and investor constraints into robust, investable index methodologies. Start from a Core Index, assess design choices through live analytics, and use disciplined optimization to manage benchmark proximity, diversification, sector exposure, turnover and investor-specific constraints. Backtesting and simulation make the climate and financial consequences of each choice visible before implementation and support fast iteration with clients.
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See How SciX Supports Climate-Index Use Cases – One Use Case at a Time.

Explore practical use cases showing how SciX climate indices and supporting analytics can translate specific investment objectives into robust, transparent methodologies. See how climate objectives, benchmark constraints and financial consequences can be assessed before implementation.

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Integrate long-term climate risks without losing control of financial constraints 
Use climate indices to integrate financially material climate considerations into core equity allocations while maintaining control of benchmark deviation, diversification and portfolio risk. SciX analytics make the climate and financial consequences of index choices visible before implementation.  

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Frequently Asked Questions

Scientific Climate Indices, or SciX, is a European provider of climate equity indices for institutional investors and asset managers. It is the index-construction platform at the center of the EDHEC climate ecosystem.

SciX translates climate science, climate-risk data and quantitative risk management into investable equity index methodologies. Its Core indices are designed around clearly defined climate objectives and can also serve as starting points for disciplined customization.

SciX is launching with two initial ranges: Physical Climate Resilience and Climate Mitigation. Its approach combines scientific rigor, transparency and financial discipline so investors can integrate climate considerations while maintaining control of portfolio risk and benchmark deviation.

SciX combines climate science, finance and risk-management science, climate-risk data and institutional index engineering within the EDHEC ecosystem.

Rather than treating climate as a generic ESG score, SciX distinguishes between different climate objectives and makes the assumptions and financial trade-offs of each methodology explicit.

Live analytics, backtesting and simulation allow investors to test design choices, compare indices with benchmarks and assess climate and financial consequences before implementation. Core indices provide a robust starting point, while controlled customization allows investor objectives and constraints to be incorporated transparently.

SciX helps long-term institutional investors integrate climate risks and objectives into core equity allocations without losing sight of benchmark deviation, diversification, liquidity and other portfolio constraints.

A SciX Core Index can serve as a replacement for a traditional capitalization-weighted benchmark or as a climate-aware building block. Where requirements differ, the methodology can be customized around defined objectives, exclusions and constraints within a disciplined framework.

Live analytics, backtesting and simulation allow asset owners to understand the climate and financial consequences of design choices before implementation.

SciX indices can support asset managers developing climate solutions for institutional, wholesale or other clients, including funds, ETFs, segregated mandates and model portfolios.

Managers can use transparent Core indices or work with SciX on customized index solutions aligned with client objectives and constraints. Live analytics help compare designs with benchmarks, assess portfolio consequences and iterate efficiently before implementation.