Indexes
Opening Cross: Looking for Data (and Beer) in All the Right Places
Over the July 4 long weekend, I strolled around the new residential skyscrapers built along the Long Island City waterfront, and the redeveloped Gantry Plaza State Park overlooking the East River and the UN building. A few blocks inland, in a parking lot…
StatPro Gives Asset Managers Access to Nasdaq Index Data on Revolution
Portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro is to make more than 41,000 indexes in the Nasdaq Global Index Family available to asset managers via its cloud-based Revolution analytics desktop platform, as a result of joining Nasdaq OMX's Elite…
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…
Opening Cross: Declare Your Independence from Traditional Data Uses
While the majority of Inside Market Data’s coverage has traditionally centered around the use of data to directly support trading activities—such as the transmission of prices via datafeeds or terminal displays to traders and trading applications—and…
World'Vest Base Builds Sharia Index for Egyptian Islamic Finance Association
The Egyptian Islamic Finance Association (EIFA), a Cairo-based Islamic banking organization, has rolled out an index of sharia-compliant Egyptian stocks compiled by company information and research provider World'Vest Base, with the goal of attracting…
Thomson Reuters to Step Up UBS Index Data Integration, Post-Acquisition
Thomson Reuters says it will continue to distribute data on the UBS Convertible Indexes via its Eikon terminal, Elektron network and datafeeds, after acquiring the convertible bond benchmarks from UBS, renaming them the Thomson Reuters Convertible…
Informa IS Adds Nasdaq Indexes to Fund Management Platforms
New York-based investment technology provider Informa Investment Solutions, a subsidiary of UK publisher Informa, is adding index data from Nasdaq OMX to its Zephyr StyleAdvisor and PSN Enterprise products, to provide its customer base of consultants and…
UPDATE: LSE Eyes FTSE-Russell Index Data Combo
The London Stock Exchange plans to consolidate the index calculation and data distribution platforms of its FTSE index subsidiary with those of US-based index provider Russell Indexes—and may migrate the index platforms to proprietary LSE technologies,…
LSE Lays Out Russell Acquisition Proposal
The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments from the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company for $2.7 billion, in a move to diversify its revenue streams and expand into the US market.
Interactive Data Adds Nasdaq Indexes to BondEdge
Interactive Data's BondEdge Solutions cross-asset portfolio management and risk analytics division has added Nasdaq OMX's Global Index Family to its BondEdge portfolio management platform to enable institutional investors and wealth and asset managers to…
Bloomberg Plugs Fitch Ratings Data into Indexes, Professional Terminal
Bloomberg has incorporated credit ratings from credit ratings and research provider Fitch Ratings into the calculation of a selection of its Global Bond Indexes, to provide a measure of the indexes' credit quality for global institutional investors and…
TR Adds Indian Index to CRI/ESG Suite
Thomson Reuters has launched the CRI India 50 ESG Index, part of its family of Corporate Responsibility Indices that are based on the vendor's environmental, social and governance data, to provide a reference for investors seeking exposure to Indian…
The Art and the Science of SSgA
SSgA weathered the financial crisis thanks in part to its passive investment strategies. With good times returning, though, it has had to evolve with the market and is now looking at advanced beta, while at the same time growing its active investment…
TOM MTF Bows Data on New Dutch Index
The TOM (The Order Machine) multilateral trading facility has launches a new total return index, the NL20 Index, which reflects performance of the 20 largest listed Dutch companies, designed to deliver "transparency, predictability, efficiency,…
Rimes Survey: Inconsistent Buy-Side Index, Benchmark Management
Competing priorities between data end-users and those in central management functions such as IT and operations are leading to inconsistent approaches to index and benchmark data management within buy-side firms, making it harder to improve data…
Nous Expands Asset Classes, Adds Feed to Trading ‘Game'
Startup mobile trading application and data provider Nous has expanded the asset classes available for trading on its Spark Profit trading game--which the vendor uses to collect consumer investment predictions for use by institutional traders--and has…
LSE Confirms Russell Acquisition Talks
The London Stock Exchange confirmed reports today, Tuesday, May 20, that it has entered into exclusive talks with the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company to buy US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments.
GMEX Index Unit Strikes IRS Data Deal with Tullett Prebon Info
Global Derivatives Indices (GDI), the wholly owned index development and production subsidiary of derivatives exchange operator and consultancy Global Markets Exchange Group International (GMEX) has struck a deal with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI),…
Dash Departs Bloomberg Indexes
Srikant Dash has left his role as global head of indexes at Bloomberg, Inside Market Data has learned.
SIX Exchange Bows New Index Data
The SIX Swiss Exchange is to roll out real-time, delayed and historical data on a new index that tracks the 20 stocks from its Swiss Performance index with the highest dividend payments and profitability.
Moscow Exchange to Publish New Russian Market Volatility Indicator
The Moscow Exchange announced that, starting Wednesday, April 16, it will begin publishing a new index that provides an indicator of Russian volatility designed to give investors and traders a wider range of tools to assess the market.
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…
Bloomberg Buys UBS Aussie Bond Indexes
After 25 years of calculating a family of Australian bond indexes, Swiss investment bank UBS has sold the indexes─including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index─to data giant Bloomberg.
Nasdaq, Chaikin Ally for Alpha-Enhanced Indexes
Philadelphia-based investment analytics provider Chaikin Analytics has partnered with Nasdaq OMX to develop three new equal-weighted US equity indexes that are designed to outperform their respective benchmarks.