Freedom Index Company
Indexes’ Long Walk to Freedom
Can Morningstar's decision to make more than 100 benchmarks available free of charge shake up the index licensing business?
Infront Adds Freedom Index Data
Infront will roll out the indexes to more than 12,00 clients, free of charge.
Freedom Index Co Calls For More Funding
The non-profit index provider is driven by donations from industry participants wanting specific types of indexes.
Freedom Index Pursues Distribution Partners to Boost Index Uptake
Not-for-profit index provider the Freedom Index Company is seeking partners to distribute its free-of-charge indexes, in a bid to grow its customer base among the asset management community.
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Can Alternative Providers Disrupt Index Inertia?
Though there are almost a hundred mainstream index providers in the industry today, the market remains dominated by a small and elite group of providers—MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Russell Indexes and FTSE Group. With the industry clamoring for change…
Freedom Index Co Bows Aussie, Africa Indexes
Startup not-for-profit index provider the Freedom Index Company-which launched last year to offer free and independent indexes to the asset management community-is planning to add Australian indexes to its family of free-of-charge products, and is now…
