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Indices & Benchmarks

Indices track groups, market movements and enable comparison with benchmarks across equities, fixed income, commodities and rates.

Understanding Indices & Benchmarks

Integrated data delivery and access

  1. Integrated into the full range of LSEG data products for client consumption.
  2. Realtime, delayed, end-of-day pricing with history.
  3. Reference and metadata, constituent information.

Global performance benchmarking

  1. Broad global coverage across multiple asset-classes.
  2. Deep history.
  3. Broad range of datapoints and analytics.

Index and benchmark data

  1. Index and benchmark pricing, metadata & coding, analytics, constituent breakdown.
  2. LSEG in-house data from FTSE Russell + broad coverage of 3rd party global marketplace.
  3. Asset classes including Equity, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities and alternatives.

Features & Benefits

What our Indices & Benchmarks offers 

  • 1 million+
    Broad global coverage
  • 800,000
    Indices carrying constituent level datapoints

Frequently asked questions

  • Yes. LSEG benchmark data supports fund performance analysis via Lipper's 500+ fund classifications across 45,000+ funds globally. For attribution, its pricing, fundamentals, and macro data across 80 million+ instruments enable detailed return decomposition by region and asset class. For competitor positioning, Lipper's peer-group coverage allows funds to be ranked and compared across equities, fixed income, and multi-asset strategies worldwide.

  • LSEG indices (via FTSE Russell) support active strategies by serving as performance benchmarks letting managers measure outperformance against defined market segments and as rebalancing anchors, where periodic reconstitutions signal when to adjust exposures as stocks shift across size, style, or sector. Alternatively-weighted indices like the FTSE All-World GDP Adjusted embed systematic rebalancing, reducing concentration risk beyond cap-weighted defaults.
  • LSEG (via FTSE Russell) covers equity indices globally, regional, ESG, factor-based, and diversity series; fixed income government, corporate, inflation-linked, and emerging market bonds across Americas, APAC, and EMEA; and multi-asset indices. Historical depth includes ESG data back to 2002, Green Revenues to 2008, and point-in-time ESG scores from 2017. Depth for non-ESG equity/fixed income indices is not publicly documented contact your LSEG account team.