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, Matt Monach, senior manager of equity quant research and index design at FTSE Russell, looks at the equity quality factor, which combines measures of profitability and leverage. He discusses the striking recent divergence between profits and cash flow amidst the heavy infrastructure spending on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
1 Oct 2026
Avoiding debtor bias in a global sovereign bond index
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.
17 Sept 2026
Why WMR is the global standard for currency reporting and valuation
In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Paul Clarke, head of FX benchmark product management at FTSE Russell, talks about the unique role played by benchmarks in the global currency markets. He describes the design features, use cases and oversight of the WMR FX benchmarks, which provide an objective, reliable and representative snapshot of FX rates across global markets.
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