Stock market crash slows growth at MSCI and Co.

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The indices of the major providers are known and popular among investors.

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Frankfurt The market of index providers for stock and bond markets is dominated by a few well-known addresses: They include the frontrunner MSCI, followed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell and Nasdaq.

Together, these four top names generated around 78 percent of the total revenue in this industry in 2021 – MSCI alone achieved almost $1.3 billion.

The houses earn primarily from fees from asset managers and banks, for example, when they use the indices. Index funds play a major role, for example on the US stock index S&P 500. Such products are composed in exactly the same way as the respective benchmark. Banks or asset managers pay a fixed percentage based on the capital invested in the products. Another source of income is the sale of financial market data.

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