Sustainable Investment Indices

Browse our sustainable investment indices, designed to help you implement a sustainable investment view in an ever-changing world.

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    4. Research and Insights
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    6. Featured solutions
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    Sustainable Investment Indices for Global Markets

    Discover FTSE Russell's comprehensive range of sustainable investment indices spanning equities, fixed income and alternative asset classes, designed to meet evolving market needs.

    Why Choose FTSE Russell for Sustainable Investment?

    For over 20 years FTSE Russell has been a trusted name among global investors for its sustainable benchmarks and indices, now with around $2901 billion in fund AUM and multiple awards2.

    Our client-centric approach drives our innovation in sustainable index product development. We collaborate closely with clients and industry leaders to deliver tailored products and services.

    Innovative Data-Driven Solutions

    FTSE Russell leverages proprietary LSEG data models and leading external data to design and build climate, sustainable and thematic indices. Our commitment to innovation is reflected in our cutting-edge research and analytics.

    Comprehensive Sustainable Index Range

    Our diverse range of sustainable indices covers equities, fixed Income and alternatives. As market demands evolve, so does our index offering, ensuring we continue to meet the needs of our clients

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    Versatile Tools for Portfolio Construction, Passive Fund Creation, Benchmarking and Stewardship

    FTSE Russell's Sustainable Indices: Cross-Asset Class Tools for Investors

    Our product range is categorised as follows:

    Climate Sustainable Thematic

    Our climate indices are designed to capture the risks and opportunities arising from climate change.

    We utilise comprehensive datasets including carbon emissions, green revenues and decarbonisation targets.

    Our sustainable indices incorporate a wide range of sustainability issues into their benchmark design.

    These indices include those that apply specific exclusions and those that adjust constituent weights based on how companies manage broader sustainability risks.

    Our thematic indices offer targeted exposure to key sustainability themes, including the global green economy.

    These index series enable investors to target exposure to investment opportunities arising from the climate transition and significant sustainable trends. 

    FTSE Russell’s flagship climate benchmarks:

    1. FTSE TPI Climate Transition
    2. FTSE Climate Risk-Adjusted Gov Bond (WGBII)
    3. FTSE EPRA Nareit Green

     

    FTSE Russell’s flagship sustainable benchmarks:

    1. FTSE Global Choice
    2. FTSE4Good
    3. FTSE Blossom
    4. FTSE ESG Risk-Adjusted

    FTSE Russell’s flagship thematic benchmarks:

    1. FTSE Environmental Markets
    2. FTSE Impact Bond
    3. FTSE Sustainability-Linked Bond

    Benefits

    Sustainable investment has become a critical part of mainstream investment thinking. With 20 years of experience at the epicentre of sustainability, FTSE Russell has helped to shape the global investment landscape, working alongside a range of stakeholders from investors to regulators, corporates, and industry associations.

    We combine expert data capabilities and a multidisciplinary team of thought leaders to drive innovation in a changing world, helping investors to seize new opportunities with forward-thinking indices.

    The future of investment is sustainable investment.As sustainable investment goes mainstream.Investors are turning to FTSE Russell.We've been leaders in the sustainable investment space for more than 20 years.Partnering with clients, partnering with regulators,partnering with industry associations.Our indices are built with credible ESG and climate data.Next generation, forward looking metrics and thought leadership research.These indices are enablingsustainable growth through established multi asset class solutions.The future of investment is sustainable investment.

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    Research and Insights

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    Climate Change

    Your climate transition investment journey, where does your index provider factor in?
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    Investing in the green economy 2025: Navigating volatility and disruptions

    The green economy consists of companies that provide products and services with environmental benefits – from renewable energy and clean water to energy-efficient buildings and recycling services.
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    Sustainable Investment Insights - April 2025

    SI challenged by volatile markets in Q1

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    Asset owners remain positive about sustainable investment

    Explore Japan's sustainable investment outlook, passive strategies, and FTSE Blossom index performance in our latest report.

    Index resources

    Resources for Sustainable Investment indices

    Factsheets

    Browse our Index Factsheets to view index performance and characteristics. These are market-cap weighted and categorised by region.

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    Index Announcements

    Full versions of Index Announcements are available to subscribed users on the Research Portal. 

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    Index Resources

    Access a range of Index Resources that are designed to help you explore, use, and understand our global benchmarks across asset classes.

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    Featured solutions for sustainable investing

    Investors are looking to make informed decisions about how they incorporate sustainability into their future investment strategies.

    Sustainable Investment Indices

    See the full range of ESG and Climate indices.

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    Sustainable Investment Data

    Explore the data and tools to understand underlying sustainable investment risks and opportunities.

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    Sustainable Investment Analytics by Yield Book

    Providing a single integrated solution for sustainable and responsible investment analytics across the fixed income universe.

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    Shaping future decisions on climate investing

    Climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy are key investment risks and opportunities of our times.

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    Bringing sustainable investment mainstream

    Sustainability is no longer a niche sector, it is the foundation of investment thinking.

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    Regulation for sustainable investment

    Regulation is playing a key role in helping to shape sustainable investment strategies.

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    Case studies for Sustainable Investment solutions

    Democracy-screened ESG emerging market government bond indices

    FTSE Russell partnered with Swiss Federal Pension Fund PUBLICA to design a democracy filter for its ESG emerging market sovereign bond universe.
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    A reference index for China's offshore green bond market

    We helped PAAMC (HK) benchmark the returns of the Chinese and Asian investment grade offshore green bond market.
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    Balancing equity factors and sustainability targets

    The FTSE Developed Eurozone Low Carbon Comprehensive Equal Factor index offers equal risk exposure to give equity factors, reduced fossil fuel reserves and carbon emissions.
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    Investing for Asia’s low-carbon transition

    CSOP Asset Management chose the FTSE Russell to help clients benefit from the growing trend towards low-carbon investments in Asia-Pacific.
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    Investing sustainably with a custom credit index

    Find out how Pensioenfonds aligned their credit portfolio with four SDGs.
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    A multi-asset, green investment approach

    Aberdeen Standard Investments used FTSE Russell’s Green Revenues data to identify investment opportunities and support regulatory reporting.
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    Addressing climate change through ESG integration

    Using the Transition Pathway Initiative to help investors' need for a practical, easy to use tool for assessing companies’ preparedness.
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    Supporting the climate transition

    The Church of England Pensions Board uses the FTSE TPI Climate Transition Index to capture companies’ readiness for the low-carbon economy.
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    ESG integration into Japan’s passive investments

    The FTSE Blossom Japan Index was developed with input from the Government Pension Investment Fund in Japan for their first passive investment to track an ESG index.
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    Minimising risk while pursuing returns in a sustainable manner

    Pensioenfonds Detailhandel partnered with FTSE Russell to create a unique SDG aligned index to help make the entire portfolio sustainable in a way that aligns with the ESG themes and SDGs its members find important.
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    1 - FTSE Russell passive asset report – June 2024 - total assets invested in passive index tracking funds which are based on FTSE and Russell indexes as of June 30th, 2024. These assets include separate accounts, commingled funds, retail and institutional mutual funds and ETFs as reported directly from index licensed passive and ETF clients and their websites; third party data sources as Morningstar and eVestment are used in cases when clients did not report assets. The data in the reports is to be used for information purposes only while the assets under management (AUM) valuations and volumes are estimates.

    2 – Awards include 2024 Environmental Finance Climate Index Provider of the Year award, 2024 Insights and Mandate Professional Investment Awards ESG Index Provider of the Year and 2024 AsianInvestor ESG Excellence Best ESG Index Provider Award

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