EDHEC-Risk North American Index Survey 2011

EDHEC Survey While information on index vehicles is widely available, particularly in the case of exchange-traded vehicles, we hope that this survey will provide unique insight into the users’ perspective in the index industry, not only including a description of the current practices, but also user perceptions on different indices and on benefits and drawbacks of index construction methodologies. Furthermore, there is a growing body of research on index construction and index use. Recent studies assess current indices and also propose alternative approaches to construct indices. This survey also serves as a tool to explore views of institutional index users on the conclusions of the literature in financial research.