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What Is the Financial Times Stock Exchange Group (FTSE) ? 

The Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE), now known as FTSE Russell Group, is a British financial organization that specializes in providing index offerings for the global financial markets. The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) owns the FTSE Russell Group. In addition to the FTSE Russell Group, the LSEG also owns the Borsa Italiana, Millennium IT, and other financial brands. The indexing division of the FTSE is similar to that of Standard & Poor’s; it specializes in creating index offerings that the global financial markets can use as benchmarks. An index is comprised of a hypothetical portfolio of stock holdings, so it can act as a representation of the performance of a particular market segment—also called a benchmark. Although the FTSE offers many indexes, its two most well-known indexes are the FTSE 100, which is comprised of the most highly capitalized blue-chip stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange, and the Russell 2000 Index, a small-cap stock market index of the smallest 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index. 

KEY TAKEWAYS

  • The Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) Group is a financial organization that specializes in the management of asset exchanges and creating index offerings for the global financial markets. 
  • The London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group currently owns FTSE. 
  • In May 2015 FTSE Group combined with Russell to form the brand name, FTSE Russell. 
  • The FTSE 100 is generally the most well known FTSE index, but the FTSE Group manages hundreds of indexes.

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