Alternatively weighted indices

Browse our alternatively weighted indices, designed to help investors target specific investment objectives including reducing risk and improving diversification.

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    Benefits

    How our alternatively weighted indices benefit you

    FTSE Russell’s range of alternatively weighted indices are designed to help investors target specific investment objectives, including reducing risk and improving diversification. Built and maintained using transparent, rules-based methodology, these indices complement market cap-weighted benchmarks and are based on FTSE Russell’s flagship indices including the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (FTSE GEIS) and the Russell US Indices.

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    FTSE Russell Asset Classes

    Research and Insights

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    Decarbonising high-yield and emerging market bond indices

    FTSE Russell is extending its transparent and flexible toolkit to help investors align their fixed income benchmarks to the targets of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. This insight provides analysis among the launched indices and insights of the different index behaviours.
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    Research

    FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index

    Seeking exposure to China? Our FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index is highly correlated with the broad China equity market, while providing access to an important area of growth as China aims to transform into a high-tech powerhouse.

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    FTSE Taiwan RIC Capped Index

    The FTSE Taiwan RIC Capped index has lower volatility and better industry diversification, allowing it to be more defensive during volatile macroeconomic periods than its uncapped counterpart.

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    Resources for Infrastructure indices

    Factsheets

    Browse our Index Factsheets to view index performance and characteristics. These are market-cap weighted and categorised by region.

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    Index Resources

    Access a range of Index Resources that are designed to help you explore, use, and understand our global benchmarks across asset classes.

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