In the decade or so leading up to the mid-2000s, FactSet was in the business of aggregating third-party content from a variety of different vendors – financial information from Thomson Reuters; index data from MSCI, Russell, and S&P; trading data from exchanges – cleaning it up, hosting it on mainframes, and rendering it on workstations […]
Tag Archives: Indices
[SPGI – S&P Global, MSCI – MSCI Inc.] New indices are created every day as passive strategies flourish and investors invent ways to track exposures across asset classes, geographies, sectors, and market caps. They are stamped with the imprimatur of a well-known provider, validated with fresh pools of capital, and before long, become indispensable benchmarks or […]