FTSE Custom Solutions

FTSE Custom Indices provide customised benchmarks utilising a database of over 65,000 companies across 91 countries. Sample customised indices include “ex countries”, “ex sectors”, currency hedging, specific tax returns and specific stock inclusion/ exclusions.

The benefits are:

• The best fit solutions – the benchmark solution to meet your exact mandate or market measurement requirements.
• Technically superior indices – FTSE’s index design specialists apply their knowledge to your customised solution.
• Flexibility – specify your universe from FTSE’s database of over 65,000 stocks from 91 countries.
• Saving time and money –Outsourcing to an independent global index design and calculation specialist.

FTSE works with some of the largest asset owner and fund management firms worldwide to develop solutions to suit their needs, a few of which include:

• Developing a custom benchmark based on the FTSE All-World Index for the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).
• Providing eight benchmark indices for the Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) in its historic launch of French state reserve pension funds. FRR uses customised FTSE indices, covering European, US and Asia Pacific markets as benchmarks for a combination of active and passive funds.