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FTSE Group (FTSE), the award-winning index provider, announced today that it has licensed BGI to use a series of FTSE indices as a basis of four new ETFs. The indices BGI has selected are:
- FTSE EPRA NAREIT Dividend Plus US
- FTSE EPRA NAREIT Dividend Plus Asia
- FTSE EPRA NAREIT Dividend Plus Global
- Macquarie Global Infrastructure 100, calculated and managed by FTSE.
Product issuers are increasingly using FTSE tradable indices as the basis for ETFs and other indexed derivative products. Worldwide, FTSE indices are already supporting 40 ETFs* in a range of asset classes on stock exchanges such as NYSE, LSE, Euronext, and HKEx.
Imogen Dillon Hatcher, Managing Director, FTSE Group commented: “Drawing on a long reputation as a respected equity index provider, FTSE today offers a range of innovative indices covering the all the important asset classes. These new licenses demonstrate FTSE’s skill in developing index solutions in line with global investor needs.”
The Macquarie Global Infrastructure 100 index is designed to reflect the stock performance of companies within the infrastructure industry, principally those engaged in the management, ownership and or operation of infrastructure and utility assets.
The FTSE EPRA NAREIT Dividend Plus indices are market-cap weighted and designed to measure the performance of global higher yielding stock within the developed universe of the EPRA NAREIT index series.
More information about FTSE’s suite of index products is available at www.ftse.com
