Investment professionals can explore benchmarks, test custom exposures and compare alternatives using natural language, bringing trusted index expertise closer to the investment decision.
FTSE Russell announced that its Fixed Income Index Module is available through leading AI platforms, including Claude and Chat GPT, with others to follow with others to follow, meeting clients where they work.
This capability enables users to easily explore the FTSE’s suite of fixed income indices, customize construction methodologies, compare alternatives and test them against historical market conditions within a conversational workflow, using FTSE Russell's trusted data and methodologies. Investors are able to ask follow-up questions, adjust their approach and visualise results without restarting the analysis at each step within the AI tools they already use.
Our ambition is to make FTSE’s fixed income expertise accessible wherever our clients choose to work. Bringing FTSE Russell’s index capabilities into AI platforms reflects our commitment to an open approach to innovation, combining the depth of our index expertise with the strengths of our technology partners. This is LSEG Everywhere in practice.
Scott Harman
What can users do
Investment teams increasingly want to test multiple ideas to quickly turn them into actionable insights and customised strategies with confidence. Today, that often means moving between tools, waiting on specialist input, and rebuilding analysis at each step. Index Module in AI brings the process into one conversational workflow.
- Research existing benchmarks. Explore the suite of FTSE Russell fixed income indices, review the exposures they represent, and assess their relevance to an investment objective.
- Test alternative designs. Customise benchmark methodologies and compare different approaches using production-grade index data.
- Examine historical behaviour. Backtest index strategies across historical market environments and visualise the results.
- Refine the analysis. Ask follow-up questions and adjust an idea without starting over.
- Develop custom indices. Use a workflow that supports research, backtesting and production-ready fixed income index creation.
Built by FTSE Russell, delivered through AI
FTSE Russell builds the index-design intelligence at the core of the user experience: index data, established methodologies and the tools that construct, test and compare indices. Supported AI platforms provide the natural-language interface to interact with those capabilities.
Results are grounded in FTSE Russell's index data and methodologies, so speed doesn't come at the expense of the rigour clients expect from a benchmark provider. This is a new way to work with specialist index expertise, while keeping the investor’s objectives and judgement at the centre of the process.
Why it matters
Explore ideas through self-service research and analysis in real time.
Evaluate benchmarks and custom designs against investment objectives, supported by FTSE Russell’s benchmarks and historical data.
Compare alternatives and examine historical outcomes before moving towards implementation
Refine questions and designs within a conversational workflow, reducing the need to restart analysis.
Access specialist index capabilities through supported AI platforms within the investment research process
Clients should not have to choose between speed and rigour. Our focus is on helping investors translate their investment objectives into more deliberate choices about fixed income exposure. Bringing Index Module into AI platforms makes it easier to challenge assumptions, assess alternatives and understand the trade-offs that shape a portfolio. The value lies not simply in accelerating research, but in giving investors a trusted foundation to make decisions with greater confidence.
Marina Mets
FTSE Russell. Trusted index expertise. A new way to explore.
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