FTSE Global Equity Index Series Launched

FTSE Group today unveils the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, an enhanced family of global benchmarks. The new benchmarks offer index users unparalleled market coverage and flexibility, and marks a key milestone in FTSE's ongoing strategy to become the number one index provider worldwide. Covering 98% of the world's market capitalisation, and offering total flexibility for any investment mandate, the FTSE Global Equity Index Series is the most comprehensive and advanced benchmark available to investors today.

The new index series is composed of the existing FTSE All-World Index (covering large and mid cap stocks and totalling 90% global market capitalisation), as well as the new FTSE Global Small Cap indices, which begin calculation today. The Global Small Cap Indices cover the same 48 countries as the FTSE All-World index and captures the bottom 10% of capitalisation. Overall, these combined indices cover more than 7,000 companies. FTSE's design allows index users the flexibility to overlay any investment mandate, eg regional, size, style, multinational/local, SRI, or customisation.

For more information and to view end of day index values, visit FTSE Global Equity Index Series web pages.