Index Forum & Networking Reception

Registration

Program

Keynote Presentation

Increasingly, index providers are developing “smart beta” indexes that provide specific exposures to certain market factors using a variety of selection, weighting, and timing techniques. In addition to creating more specific signals, providers can also help investors manage some of the traditional “noise” that comes with more active strategies, such as turnover and tracking error to a broad market benchmark.

Keynote:

Tom Goodwin, Ph.D., Senior Director Research, Russell Indexes

Issues and Interests from the Index Creator Perspective

This panel session will provide attendees with first-hand perspectives on the topics and activities that are keeping index creator firms busy. Included in the discussion will be a review of the mechanics of creating and maintaining indexes, the need for exchange data and the relationships with those exchanges that supply that data, and the evolving commercial aspects of the index realm.

Networking Reception