Indices

Smart Indices

An overview of Smart Indices


We leverage proprietary and premium content to help you issue products that serve your clients’ needs.

Fundamentals - Access to best-in-class fundamental data including company financials, qualitative ratings, country of risk, broker forecasts, industry and technical characteristics.

Predictive stock selection - Academically pure risk premia factors (volatility, momentum and StarMine models) enable our Indices to express non-traditional investment hypotheses.

Replication and cross-asset - Our indexation expertise is evident in innovative tools that apply structural overlays to add leverage, currency hedges and short-selling factors to emergent investment areas and synthetically modeled combinations of traditional assets.

One provider to meet all needs - Fully in-house sourcing, calculation, maintenance and distribution operations, lowers cost and complexity.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global
  • History
    From 2008
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    HTML
    JSON
    Python
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    SFTP
  • Data frequency
    Continuous
    Daily

FTSE Russell Benchmarks and Indices

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Features & Benefits

What you get with Smart Indices

  • Our exclusive content sources - I/B/E/S Estimates, StarMine Analytics, Fundamentals, ESG, Economic Indicators, News sentiment and more.
  • A wide range of weighting schemes - Construction and weighting on strategies beyond common market capitalization, using back-tested institutional-quality models.
  • Risk management flexibility - Tilt risk/return profiles with Indices designed for enhanced return, based on combinations of constituents and factors.
  • Unparalleled content - Our Index Experts leverage a wealth of proprietary content and comprehensive market data to develop Smart Indices.
  • Proven calculation engine - We have been providers of cost-efficient and reliable calculation services to third-party index manufacturers for decades.
  • Highest ethical standards - Our Trust Principles have ensured the highest ethical standards across all of our businesses, services and products since 1941.

How it works

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