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About FTSE Americas

  • FTSE Group (FTSE) is the company behind a group of world-famous stock market indexes, including the FTSE 100.
  • Industry estimates place over USD 3 trillion in assets linked to FTSE indexes worldwide.
  • FTSE Americas was set up in 2000, and now has three offices in New York, San Francisco and Boston. The business is headed by President, FTSE Americas, Jerry Moskowitz.
  • FTSE Americas is successfully challenging longer established index providers by creating and calculating innovative new index series for the domestic US market and its investors.
  • FTSE is the chosen index partner of a series of organisations and exchanges, including NAREIT, NASDAQ, Dow Jones Indexes, and Research Affiliates (RAFI) in the US.
  • FTSE has won a series of industry awards, in recognition of its innovation and excellence in providing indexing service:
    • Global Pensions – Index Provider of the Year 2008, 2006 and 2005
    • Structured Products – Index Provider of the Year 2005
    • William F Sharpe Most Innovative Benchmark (for FTSE RAFI Series)
  • FTSE's client list includes some of the largest US pension funds, including CalPERS, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System, and Virginia Retirement System.
  • FTSE’s Chief Executive Mark Makepeace has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from children’s charity UNICEF, in recognition of the innovative fund raising model he established with the FTSE4Good Index Series.
  • FTSE indexes are the basis for many US exchange traded funds issued by BGI, PowerShares, and Northern Trust, including the FTSE Xinhua China 25 and the FTSE RAFI US 1000, both traded on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), and the FTSE 100 traded on the AMEX (American Stock Exchange).