FTSE Russell Index Ideas
FTSE Russell Index Ideas
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Index Ideas by FTSE Russell is your front-row seat to the changing landscape of index investing. This podcast explores how cutting-edge benchmarks are built to solve real-world investment challenges, helping you to manage risk and capture new opportunities. Stay ahead of market shifts and understand the ideas shaping tomorrow’s passive strategies.
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The podcast focuses on topics such as the architecture of equity benchmarks, the Russell Reconstitution process, and strategies for risk management, featuring episodes that delve into why certain benchmarks, like the Russell 1000 and 2000, are considered superior and how they adapt to market changes.

Index Ideas by FTSE Russell is your front-row seat to the changing landscape of index investing. This podcast explores how cutting-edge benchmarks are built to solve real-world investment challenges, helping you to manage risk and capture new opportunities. Stay ahead of market shifts and understand the ideas shaping tomorrow’s passive strategies.
In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Abhi Desai, Senior Analyst, Fixed Income Custom Solutions at FTSE Russell and Olivier Genin, Deputy Head Investment and Product Strategy, Head of Fixed Income and Responsible Investing Product Strategy, Amundi ETF and Indexing, discuss the design and use cases of FTSE GDP-Weighted World Government Bond index (WGBI), in which constituent country weights are determined by economic footprint, rather than the market value of debt in issue.

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