Our Index Providers


Standard & Poor's Index Services


Standard & Poor’s Index Services, the world’s leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Its family of indices includes the S&P 500, an index with US $1.26 trillion invested and US $4.45 trillion benchmarked, and the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices. Additional information can be found at standardandpoors.com/indices.

MSCI Barra


MSCI Barra provides global equity indices, which, over the last 40 years, have become the most widely used international equity benchmarks by institutional investors. MSCI Barra constructs global equity benchmark indices that contribute to the investment process by serving as relevant and accurate performance benchmarks and effective research tools, and as the basis for various investment vehicles. As such, the MSCI International Equity Indices are designed to fulfill the investment needs of a wide variety of global institutional market participants. In constructing these indices, MSCI Barra consistently applies its index construction and maintenance methodology across developed, emerging and frontier markets. This consistent approach makes it possible to aggregate individual country and industry indices to create meaningful composite, regional, sector and industry benchmarks. Additional information can be found at mscibarra.com/products/indices

Morningstar, Inc.


Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. The company offers an extensive line of Internet, software, and print-based products and services for individuals, financial advisors and institutional clients. Morningstar provides data on more than 190,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds and similar vehicles. The company has operations in 15 countries and minority ownership positions in companies based in three other countries. Morningstar Indexes offers a broad range of equity, fixed income and commodity indexes. These indexes are used for asset allocation and benchmarking and serve as the basis for investment product creation and market monitoring. Additional information can be found at morningstar.com.

Dow Jones Indexes


Dow Jones Indexes is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones Indexes is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, the world's leading pan-European indexes, and together with Wilshire Associates provides the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family, which is anchored by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 and covers more than 60 countries and 12,000 securities. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Additional information can be found at djindexes.com.

Russell Investments


Over the past 25 years, Russell's innovative methodology has helped their indexes become the benchmarks most used by institutional investors. Currently, institutional investment professionals responsible for over $4.3 trillion in assets use Russell indexes to guide their portfolios. Additional information can be found at russell.com/indexes.

NASDAQ OMX


NASDAQ OMX is a global leader in creating and licensing strategy indexes and is home to the most widely watched indexes in the world. Additional information can be found at indexes.nasdaqomx.com.

FTSE


FTSE Group calculates over 120,000 indices covering more than 77 countries and all major asset classes. We provide an evolving range of index products to help investors make more informed investment decisions with confidence. We constantly strive to meet the changing needs of the market through innovative index design, and customized index solutions, and have been the partner of choice for many exchanges worldwide. Our established index standards - encompassing independent committee governance, liquidity screening, free float adjustment and country classification, create clear transparent methodology and governance to ensure all our indices are investable and straightforward to track. Additional information can be found at ftse.com/indices.