FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index Launches Today
FTSE Group (FTSE) and corporate governance leader Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) today release the first phase of the joint FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index (CGI) Series. FTSE and ISS have created this new series in response to investor demand for better and more accessible tools to help assess and manage the impact corporate governance practices may have on investment portfolios.
The new series contains a group of six equity indexes, with a corporate governance overlay. It includes companies from a universe of 2,300 constituent companies from 24 developed markets. The six indices, which go live today, are:
- FTSE ISS Developed CGI;
- FTSE ISS Europe CGI;
- FTSE ISS Euro CGI;
- FTSE ISS Japan CGI;
- FTSE ISS US CGI;
- FTSE ISS UK CGI.
All the indices cover large and mid cap stocks with the exception of the UK index that covers large, mid and small cap stocks.Full details of the series can be accessed at
www.ftse.com/corpgov
