3. EMEA Fixed Income Indexes

EMEA Fixed Income Indexes

FTSE Russell offers a range of indexes that measure the performance of European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) fixed income securities including government, government-sponsored, collateralized, and corporate debt. Broadly-focused indexes that span the entire EMEA region and measure both investment-grade and high-yield bonds are available, as are indexes more narrowly focused on specific countries and/or sectors.

FTSE Euro Broad Investment-Grade Bond Index (EuroBIG®)

  • The index is a multi-asset benchmark for investment-grade, Eurodenominated, fixed income bonds. It includes government, governmentsponsored, collateralized and corporate debt.

FTSE EMU Government Bond Index (EGBI)

  • The index measures the performance of fixed-rate, local currency, investment-grade sovereign bonds. It consists of the European Monetary Union (EMU) participating countries that meet specific criteria for market size, credit quality, and barriers-to-entry.

FTSE European High-Yield Market Index

  • The index comprises cash-pay, zero-to-full (ZTF), pay-in-kind (PIK) and step coupon bonds and measures the performance of high-yield corporate debt denominated in Euro, Swiss Franc, and UK Sterling.

FTSE Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa Government Bond Index (CEEMEAGBI)

  • The index comprises government bonds from seven CEEMEA markets, denominated in local currencies and provides a broad benchmark to measure sovereign CEEMEA markets.

FTSE Middle East and North Africa Broad Bond Index (MENABBI)

  • The index measures the performance of both investment-grade and highyield US dollar denominated debt issued by governments, agencies, and corporations domiciled in the Middle East and North Africa.

FTSE Actuaries UK Gilt Indexes

  • A broad-based, comprehensive family of indexes designed to measure the performance of eligible British Government securities, covering the conventional gilt and index-linked gilt markets.

FTSE MTS Indexes

  • A series of indexes that measure the performance of the largest and most widely-traded securities in the eurobond market. Data underlying the indexes is drawn from real-time tradable prices on MTS, the first and leading electronic marketplace for cash bond trading across Europe.

FTSE/JSE Indexes

  • FTSE Russell and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have developed a long-standing partnership that combines FTSE Russell’s world-class multi-asset capabilities with the regional expertise of the JSE in Africa. A diverse range of FTSE/JSE equity and fixed income indexes designed to represent the perspective of both domestic and international investors are the result of this collaboration.