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.

Episodes

  1. 4H AGO

    Climate risk still top of investors’ concerns

    In this episode of Index Ideas, Stephanie Maier, Global Head of Sustainable at FTSE Russell, discusses the results of FTSE Russell’s 8th Annual Sustainable Investment Asset Owner Survey, released in December 2025. She describes investors’ rising concerns about climate risk and argues that sustainable investment is very much alive and well.

    11 min

  2. JAN 8

    Building an EU Climate Benchmark

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Andreas Schroeder, head of index design (EMEA) at FTSE Russell talks about the objectives and requirements of an EU Paris-aligned equity index. He explains how FTSE Russell’s researchers choose between different index designs when meeting those requirements.

    12 min

  3. 12/11/2025

    How indices can help you invest in the green economy

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Lee Clements, Director of Applied Sustainable Investment Research at FTSE Russell, explains how indices can help guide those investing in the green economy. He describes FTSE Russell’s green revenues data, how it's organised and overseen and how the data feeds into our environmental equity indices.

    14 min

  4. 11/26/2025

    How the FTSE WGBI helped define the global bond market

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Robin Marshall, director of fixed income research at FTSE Russell, talks about the 40-year legacy of the FTSE World Government Bond Index (FTSE WGBI), the global standard for the sovereign debt markets.

    13 min

  5. 11/13/2025

    How we build the Russell style indexes

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Catherine Yoshimoto, Director of Product Management at FTSE Russell, talks about the objectives, design and uses of the Russell US style indexes, the widely used benchmarks for the US equity market’s growth and value, defensive and dynamic style segments.

    14 min

  6. 10/30/2025

    Defining and indexing digital assets

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Kristen Barrie Mierzwa, head of digital assets at FTSE Russell, talks about the unique challenges of indexing digital assets: defining the universe, sourcing reliable information on cryptocurrency tokens and applying an index framework to a market that operates 24/7/365.

    16 min

  7. 10/15/2025

    The rise and rise of fixed income ETFs

    Why fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to break records. In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Jack Fischer, US Fixed Income Product Lead at FTSE Russell, explains why assets in fixed income ETFs, both index-based and active, continue to hit new highs. He focuses on the rise in demand amongst US investors for international fixed income exposure and how FTSE Russell’s index range is meeting that demand.

    11 min

  8. 08/21/2025

    Balancing exposure to macro regimes

    Combining asset classes for long-term success. In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, quantitative researcher Alberto Allegrucci explains why the 60/40 equity/bond asset allocation model fell out of favour after Covid. He discusses FTSE Russell’s quantitative model for a long-term balanced macro asset allocation.

    13 min

  9. 08/04/2025

    The resilience of high cash flow companies

    In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Emerald Yau, Head of Equity Index Product Management for FTSE Russell in Asia, talks about an important measure of equity resilience—free cash flow—and how her team has recently designed a set of indices to embed this measure.

    10 min

  10. 07/17/2025

    A smarter way to address concentration risk

    Why is concentration risk a concern? In this episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Sebastian Lancetti, Head of Index Research & Design, Americas joins us to discuss perhaps the hottest topic in investment. What has happened historically after periods of extreme equity market concentration? What are the different ways to diversify an equity index? And what is FTSE Russell's new target diversification approach?

    11 min

  11. 07/03/2025

    How we built a better US equity benchmark

    Why do we call the Russell 1000 and 2000 'better' benchmarks? In the first episode of FTSE Russell Index Ideas, Catherine Yoshimoto, Director of Product Management at FTSE Russell explains how the Russell Reconstitution process works, the significance of Russell Recon Day for the overall US equity market and how the calendar is changing next year. As a reminder, FTSE Russell does not offer investment advice. You can’t invest in an index directly – it’s a hypothetical portfolio of stocks, bonds or other assets. If you’d like to use any of the index ideas we discuss in an investment strategy, you will need to reach out to your product provider or investment adviser.

    14 min
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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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  • Creator
    London Stock Exchange Group, LSEG
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025
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