Index Management Services
Gain valuable, actionable market data intelligence while mitigating the operational risks and indirect costs associated with index data management
S&P Global's Index Management Solutions provide more than simple operating efficiencies extended by a data aggregation service; our translation of theoretical indices into tradeable baskets equips customers with the actionable intelligence required to identify market opportunities and drive informed investment decisions.
By transforming market data into market intelligence, we provide a consolidated, normalized, and cross-validated data solution that empowers customers to navigate complex market environments with confidence.
Key Benefits
Comprehensive Solution
Delivering aggregated index datasets, enriched with reference data and supported by corporate action and dividend datasets, customers receive a complete and consistent data feed.
Accelerated Integration
Producing normalized datasets sourced from various sources with disparate formats, structures, and index methodologies, EBS offers customers a ‘plug and play’ experience for all current and future index data requirements.
Index Data Agency
Offering a managed service for the collection, integration, and processing of index data across our consortium of data providers, EBS provides customers a single point of contact for addressing any data challenges and facilitating necessary remediation activities.
Advanced Insights
Emphasizing forward looking, T+ datasets and their impact to index compositions, EBS’ suite of predictive solutions empowers customers to anticipate market opportunities that arise from both index and market events.
Dynamic Data Distribution
Utilizing an API centric distribution model, EBS’ hosted solution ensures that customers can access datasets, as long as there is an internet connection. Data is consistently available through direct API calls, a user interface, or an excel add-in.
Subject Matter Expertise
With over 10 years of experience as the central hub of the index trading ecosystem, EBS shares its extensive knowledge base and customer network with all market participants, supporting their efforts to hedge, arbitrage, and enhance liquidity in derivative instruments.
Adaptive Data Framework
Utilizing a single, bottom-up calculation methodology, EBS accommodates a range of complex calculation models while providing a simple output that is directly transferable to customers’ specific use-cases, thereby unlocking the potential hidden in published data.
Cost-Effective
Mitigating technical integration requirements and operating under a provider-agnostic, simple pricing model, EBS’ enables customers to benefit from economies of scale while confidently projecting future costs associated with the ongoing management of index data.
Data Availability
Supporting over 700,000 indices, we have connectivity with more than 120 index data publishers, covering over 1,000 of their index products. All delivered alongside related corporate action, ETF, and custom basket data.
Customer Profiles
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Our Customers
Investment Banks
Market Makers
Broker Dealers
Hedge Funds
Asset Managers
Asset Servicers
Asset Owners
ETF issuers
Research Firms
Data Providers
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Target Use Cases
Derivative Modeling
Index Arbitrage
Index Futures Pricing
Index Hedging
Portfolio Management
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Target Datasets
Index Compositions
T+ Corporate Actions
Rebalance Events
Index Trade Data
Security Reference Data
Products and Solutions
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Index Management
EBS Index Management Solutions offer a unique source of daily index reference data that is independently calculated and validated. Our aggregated index data services enable clients to explore new investment opportunities and strategies by transforming theoretical indices into tradeable baskets, thus enhancing investment decisions. Utilizing a simplified data model, EBS provides the flexibility to derive actionable insights from performance-based indices, such as blended indices, currency hedging, and performance decrements. By applying security-level share scaling factors, customers effectively capture the performance impacts on an underlying basket, enabling them to identify trading opportunities more efficiently.
Key Benefits
- Daily delivery of industry-standard datasets: Access pre-validated, normalized data from a wide range of indices. Normalized Single Index Methodology: Offers independent, traceable, and replicable index calculations.
- Tradeable Baskets: Convert theoretical index data into actionable insights and tradeable baskets to capitalize on arbitrage opportunities and passive investment strategies.
- Network Effect: Leverage our extensive network of providers and clients to foster collaboration, innovation and continuous service improvement.
- Cost-efficient: All-in-one datasets and real-time updates.
- Data Quality Steward: Single point of contact for all sourcing and data remediation challenges related to index data.
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Index Trading Insights
The EBS Index Trading Insights suite empowers users to make informed investment decisions and optimize their trading strategies. Users can convert theoretical indices into customized representative baskets aligned with their investment objectives and access trade requirements up to 30 days in advance of rebalance and corporate action effective dates. Our suite of tools provides insights on forecasted divisors influenced by events affecting representative baskets while also accommodating individual trading parameters such as notional, currency, and trade timing. Our unique tools enhance passive investment strategies and enable users to capitalize on market opportunities, such as equity index arbitrage and dividend trading.
Key Features
- Basket Builder: Construct representative baskets using EBS’ tradeable index methodology.
- T+ Divisor Forecast: Forecasted data utilizing published index compositions, enhanced with independently validated adjustments for corporate actions and dividends.
- Index Forecasting: Details on current and future weight, market value, dividend impact, and price changes for each constituent.
- Rebalance Calculator: Predictive pre-trade solution offering customizable trades and reports tailored to user defined index universe and basket parameters.
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Equity Custom Baskets
The EBS Equity Custom Baskets (ECB) solution equips investors to manage and optimize tailored portfolios that align with their unique strategies. Users can define, create, track and enhance their custom baskets while our expert team ensures seamless handling of corporate actions. ECB provides rapid time-to-market distribution, along with full transparency through a user-friendly web portal and robust API integration, facilitating a streamlined workflow. Our unique approach can reduce the complexities and costs associated with engaging multiple providers to launch bespoke baskets and manage them. Utilizing our flexible configuration options, clients can align their investments with specific strategies, ultimately enhancing their decision-making and improving overall investment performance.
Key Features
- Fully Scalable: Tailored to effectively oversee and execute complex corporate actions automatically
- Speed to Market: Experience rapid basket creation and dissemination
- Seamless Delivery: Distributed via Third- party channels, FTP/SFTP, API and Web portal
- Flexible Configuration Options: Personalize baskets with Dividend reinvestment options, Static/Dynamic divisors, Ad-hoc rebalancing and customised tax rates
- Transparency: Benefit from Proactive validations, Bottom-up calculations, User defined templates, real time access via web portal and API
- Dedicated Global Support: Receive reliable 24/5 expert assistance throughout the custom basket lifecycle
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Trading Facilitation
Trading Facilitation offers a specialized service for the validation and distribution of customized indices provided by vendors. Our platform ensures seamless delivery to specific end-users, enhancing the accessibility and utility of tailored index solutions. By leveraging our robust infrastructure, Trading Facilitation empowers clients to efficiently distribute their unique indices, fostering targeted investment strategies and opportunities. This service is designed to accommodate the diverse needs of clients seeking precision in index customization, allowing for greater flexibility in investment planning and execution. With Trading Facilitation, clients can confidently navigate the complexities of customized index distribution, supported by our dedicated team and advanced technological capabilities.
Key Benefits
- Customized Index Delivery: Facilitate the distribution of vendor-provided customized indices to designated end-users, ensuring precision and relevance.
- Dedicated Accessibility: Utilize our platform to streamline the delivery process, making customized indices readily available to the dedicated client as per request.
- Collaborative Network: Engage with vendors and end-users to optimize the distribution and application of customized indices.
- Reliable Infrastructure: Benefit from our proven platform, ensuring consistent and dependable service for customized index distribution.
Network Effect
Connect, Collaborate, Conquer: Elevate your index trading and derivative pricing strategies by leveraging our position as a central nexus point of the index trading ecosystem and the connection between trading parties.
Our services distribute proprietary index data sourced directly from our customers and index administrators, along with all other publicly available index data, ETF, and custom basket datasets.
This extensive network of providers and customers has uniquely positioned EBS as a vital conduit of trade information between counterparties in derivative trades, enhancing liquidity, transparency, and the ease of completing transactions.
By serving major investment banks, asset managers, and index publishers, our network of stakeholders fosters a collaborative and innovative environment that promotes continuous service improvement.
Our customers benefit both indirectly from our central role within the trading and derivatives ecosystem, and directly from our ability to integrate and distribute a consistent index dataset to multiple counterparties concurrently.
Experts
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Garrett Burke
Garrett Burke heads the Index Management Solutions business at S&P Global Market Intelligence, based in New York.
Garrett Burke
Executive Director, Product Lead – Index Management, ETF and Benchmarking Solutions
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Aisling O’boyle
Aisling O'Boyle is the global head of the EBS Product Management team at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Aisling O'Boyle
Executive Director, Global Head of ETF and Benchmarking Solutions Product Management
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Anthony Rayar
Anthony Rayar is the ETF Management Product Lead at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Anthony Rayar
Associate Director
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee brings over 20 years of experience in trading ETFs and equity derivatives, having worked at both banks and broker-dealers.
Kevin Lee
Director, iNAV - Real-time pricing
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Tancrede Collard
Tancrede Collard is responsible for the design and delivery of innovative products with a focus on fund and index compositions and derived data for trading desks.
Tancrede Collard
Director, Head of Innovation, ETF and Benchmarking Solutions
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