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The Russell Indexes
State-of-the-Art Performance Benchmarks
Russell Indexes represent the investable global equity market and its segments comprehensively. It consists of more than 10,000 securities in 63 countries, including Canada, and offers hundreds of subindexes. Consistent with the design of the industry-leading U.S. Russell Indexes, the global index family is constructed using float-adjusted market capitalization weights and represents 98% of the investable global equity market.
Russell created its first family of stock indexes in 1984 in the U.S. to provide institutional investors with a more accurate and comprehensive system for evaluating U.S. equity manager performance. Over the past 25 years our innovative methodology has helped these indexes become the benchmarks most used by institutional investors. Currently, institutional investment professionals responsible for over $4.4 trillion in assets use Russell indexes to guide their portfolios.
Canadian Indexes
As part of the Russell Global Indexes, we offer a variety of indexes relevant to Canadian investors both domestically and globally. Indexes are available for Canada Large, Mid and Small Cap, Value and Growth, as well as these cap and style breakouts for North America, Global ex-North America and Global ex-Canada. For information on Russell Canada indexes, please contact index@russell.com.
For a look at all our indexes, go to Russell Indexes at a glance.
What makes a good stock index?
Russell Indexes have become popular with many institutional investors because they are designed to reflect the market:
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- More comprehensive. Russell Indexes represent over 98% of the investable universe world wide.
- Completely objective. Russell Indexes are modular and transparent in their design and the market determines membership, not a committee.
- Rigorously maintained. Russell Indexes are reconstituted annually to make sure they reflect the market. IPO's are added quarterly to ensure the indexes remain current.
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Russell Index Purpose
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- To act as performance standards for active managers
- To serve as proxies for asset allocation purposes
- To become purchasable and replicable vehicles for passive investment strategies
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Japan Equity Indexes
In 1995 analysts at Russell and the Financial & Economic Research Center of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. joined forces to meet a critical need for Japanese investors. They created a family of indexes that not only provided a comprehensive benchmark of the market, but were also the first Japanese equity indexes to provide both style and float-adjustments. Each Russell/Nomura index accurately reflects the manager's investable universe.
Read more about the Russell/Nomura indexes.
Go to the Russell Indexes Web Site
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