FTSE UK Index Series

The FTSE UK Index Series is designed to represent the performance of UK companies, providing investors with a comprehensive and complementary set of indices that measure the performance of all capital and industry segments of the UK equity market.

• FTSE 100 Index

  This index comprises the 100 most highly capitalised blue chip companies, representing approximately 81% of the UK market. It is used extensively as a basis for investment products, such as derivatives and exchange-traded funds.

• FTSE 250 Index

  The FTSE 250 is comprised of mid-capitalised companies, not covered by the FTSE 100 and represents approximately 15% of UK market capitalisation.

• FTSE All-Share Index

  Representing 98-99% of the UK market capitalisation, FTSE All-Share is the aggregation of the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE Small Cap Indices.

• FTSE UK Capped Index Series

  The FTSE UK Capped 5% Indices are based on the underlying constituents of the FTSE 100 Index and FTSE All-Share Index. At the UK quarterly reviews companies that have a weight in their respective index of greater than 5% are capped. The series is made up of the following:

  • FTSE 100 Capped 5% Index
  • FTSE All-Share Capped 5% Index

  The FTSE UK Capped 5% Indices were created to allow UK investors to monitor and track the impact of reducing the size of the UK’s largest companies within FTSE’s flagship indices. The indices reduce the weight of the largest companies in both the FTSE 100 and FTSE All-Share Index and allow for a more diversified index.
  
  The FTSE All-Share is also available capped at 4%. Visit www.ftse.com/4capped for more information.

• FTSE UK Dividend+ Index

  The FTSE UK Dividend+ Index is a yield weighted index designed to select and measure the performance of higher yielding stocks within the universe of the FTSE 350 Index, excluding investment trusts. The FTSE UK Dividend+ Index selects the top 50 stocks by one-year forecast dividend yield. The constituents’ weightings within the index are determined by their dividend yield as opposed to market capitalisation.
  
  The FTSE UK Dividend+ Index was created to allow investors to capture the long-term effect of higher compounding returns, and benefit from the lower correlations to traditional market cap weighted indices.

  The dividend information for the FTSE UK Dividend+ is provided by Markit Group Limited (“Markit”), the leading industry source for independent mark-to-market pricing, asset valuations, dividend forecasting and index services.

• FTSE 350 Supersectors Index

  The FTSE 350 Supersector Indices provide investors with a new view of one of the world's most important markets. The 18 highly tradeable real-time sector indices are derived from the blue chip companies in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices.

• FTSE UK Style Index

  The FTSE UK Style Index provides investors with a measure of the performance of value and growth companies within the FTSE 350.

• FTSE Expiry Index

  The FTSE Expiry Indices facilitate the calculation of the Exchange Delivery Settlement Price ("EDSP") for the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 Index Contracts on Euronext.liffe.

  • FTSE 100 Expiry Index (Code: UKXSP)
  • FTSE 250 Expiry Index (Code: MCXSP)

  The EDSP Intra-Day Auction Schedule is used to determine the final index value for the FTSE Expiry Indices. This final index value is called the Expiry Value. This Expiry Value is used by Euronext.liffe to produce the EDSP. The two new indices will only be calculated on the expiry days of the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 Index Contracts as follows:
  
  

  • FTSE 100 Expiry Index: Third Friday of each month.
  • FTSE 250 Expiry Index: Third Friday of March, June, September and December.

  • London Stock Exchange website
  • Euronext.Liffe website

• FTSE SmallCap Index

  The FTSE SmallCap consists of companies outside of the FTSE 350 Index and represents approximately 2% of the UK market capitalisation.

• FTSE Fledgling Index

  The FTSE Fledgling is for UK companies listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange that are too small to be included in the FTSE All-Share.

• FTSE All-Small Index

  The FTSE All-Small Index consists of all the companies in the FTSE SmallCap and FTSE Fledging indices.