ProductsApril 17, 2009

Russell Expands Number of Benchmarks Available Online

Russell Investments has expanded the availability of real-time index data on russell.com to include, for the first time, eight global benchmarks.

Reported by Rebecca Moore

The live data feed allows investors to keep close watch on eight global market segments: large cap, small cap, ex-U.S. large cap, ex-U.S. small cap, as well as the value and growth style indexes reflecting the ex-U.S. small-cap and large-cap segments, according to a Russell press release. Total returns charts for these indexes are available here, and they offer one-week, one-month and one-year pictures of each segment, along with the day’s and year-to-date’s high and low points.

Real-time data also is available for seven leading U.S. benchmarks: The broad-market Russell 3000 Index, large-cap Russell 1000 Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index, Russell 1000 Value Index, small-cap Russell 2000 Index, Russell 2000 Growth Index, and Russell 2000 Value Index.

The live data feed eventually will include additional global indexes, the announcement said.