Research

Index Industry Association’s Third Annual Global ESG Asset Manager Survey

March 25, 2026

New IIA White Paper Highlights Growing Demand for Transparency, Benchmarks and Governance Across Private Assets As capital increasingly flows into private assets, investors seek the…

Measuring Markets: The Origins and Benefits of Indexes with IIA’s CEO and Georgetown’s John Jacobs

March 17, 2026

In this ETF BILD Fireside Chat, IIA’s CEO Kirsten Wegner and John Jacobs, instructor at Georgetown University and former EVP of NASDAQ discuss their recent…

Insights from the IIA’s Second Annual Global ESG Asset Manager Survey

August 31, 2022

The IIA released our Second Annual Global ESG Survey of Asset Managers. This year’s survey examined the evolving role of ESG investment in the asset…

Financial Market Indices: Facilitating Innovation, Monitoring Markets

July 8, 2019

By Andrew Clare & Steve Thomas, Cass Business School, City University London While the advent of the modern stock market index is usually traced to…

The Financial Index Industry

July 8, 2019

By The Committee for Economic Development (CED) Financial indices are designed to provide investors with a way to reduce the complexity and increase the comprehensibility…

Smart Beta Has Crossed The Rubicon

June 13, 2019

By Rolf Agather, Managing Director of Research, North America, FTSE Russell The findings of our latest annual global survey of smart beta usage by asset…

Index Industry Association Surveys the Index Universe

January 22, 2018

Index Industry Association (IIA), a global organization of index administrators, today announced the results of a revealing new survey of its fourteen member firms that…