Index Solutions Overview
As the focus shifts towards more passive strategies and ETFs, cost pressure increases, driving the need for innovative, market-relevant products and building infrastructure to support growth. Acuity Analytics is one of the leading global third-party vendors of index support with more than 23 years of experience in supporting some of the top benchmark index providers. We offer end-to-end index support services under one roof – we provide reference and index data and analysis, index creation and index operations across strategy, benchmark index and thematic indices, index marketing and client servicing.
By leveraging our broad suite of index solutions and services, our clients can move up the value chain and overcome budgetary and research bandwidth constraints. We help our clients develop and test new and monetizable research ideas. Furthermore, our research and analytics expertise and ability to take on regular maintenance work free up their time to focus on higher-priority objectives.
Industries We Serve
Support We Offer in Index Solutions
Index Data and Analytics
- Support in stock research data
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- Free float
- Industry classifications
- Universe collation
- Shares structure and patterns
- IPO, etc.
- Creation and maintenance of databases
- Data integration process – in-house and third-party data
Index Creation and Testing
- Universe definition
- New index creation
- Methodology documentation and product readiness
- Back testing and risk analysis
- Index guides
- White papers
Index Operations
- Corporate action monitoring and validation
- Data audit and gap analysis, integration and processing
- Periodic review and rebalancing of index
- Index level validation
- Index calculation and publishing checks
- Constituent weight allocation
- Variant creation – hedged, currency versions, TR, ER and PR
Reporting
- In-depth analysis of liquidity and pricing behaviour due to index rebalancing and reconstitution
- Index-level analysis
- Benchmark index and market comparison
- Index factsheets, performance and market commentary
- Publication support related to technical notes on methodology changes or republication
Client Servicing
- Handling data and index methodology/reconstitution queries
- Providing access to data or indices
- Setting up, monitoring and handling queries related to scheduled index feeds and batch jobs
- Providing customised reports and index notices
What Defines Us
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