FTSE Russell Index Ideas

Our FTSE Russell Index Ideas podcast series brings you insights into how our indices and benchmarks are built and why. We explore index ideas that can help you address real-world investment challenges.

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FTSE Russell Index Ideas is your front-row seat to the fast-changing world of indices and benchmarks. In the podcast, we explore how FTSE Russell builds cutting-edge benchmarks to solve real-world investment challenges, helping you to manage risk and capture new opportunities. Stay ahead of market shifts and understand the ideas shaping tomorrow’s passive strategies.

Season 1

Season 1 Episode 4

Balancing exposure to macro regimes

Alberto Allegrucci explores macro investment regimes, explains why the 60/40 equity/bond asset allocation model fell out of favour and discusses FTSE Russell’s quantitative model for a long-term balanced macro asset allocation.

Season 1 Episode 3

The resilience of high cash flow companies

Emerald Yau talks about an important measure of equity resilience—free cash flow—and how to measure it, explaining how her team has recently designed a set of indices to embed this measure.

Season 1 Episode 2

A smarter way to address concentration risk

Why is concentration risk a concern? In this episode, Sebastian Lancetti, Head of Index Research & Design, Americas joins us to discuss perhaps the hottest topic in investment.

Season 1 Episode 1

How we built a better US equity benchmark

Catherine Yoshimoto, Director of Product Management at FTSE Russell explains how the Russell Reconstitution process works and the significance of Russell Recon Day for the overall US equity market.

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