CRSP Market Indexes are used by asset owners, fund sponsors and other financial institutions to measure the performance of the overall US equity market and various market segments (market cap, style, sector, ESG).
Currently nearly $3 trillion of fund assets are linked to CRSP Market Indexes.
Market Cap Indexes
Value Indexes
Growth Indexes
Sector Indexes
ESG Indexes
Market Cap Indexes
CRSP Market Cap Indexes are a suite of broad US equity benchmarks that employs CRSP’s proprietary cap-segmentation methodology. To ensure the character of each cap segment is consistent through time, the methodology is based on a percentage-weight of the total US equity market instead of simple fixed constituent counts to represent each capitalization segment. CRSP Market Cap indexes also utilize CRSP’s unique index maintenance tools such as migration packeting, banding and transitional reconstitution to mitigate transaction costs from index changes.
Value Indexes
Money managers and other practitioners use multiple metrics to identify and measure investment styles – Value and Growth. CRSP scores each security and determines its weight in the appropriate Value index using the following factors:
Book to Price
Forward Earnings to Price
Historical Earnings to Price
Dividend-to-Price Ratio
Sales-to-Price Ratio
Growth Indexes
Money managers and other practitioners use multiple metrics to identify and measure investment styles – Value and Growth. CRSP scores each security and determines its weight in the appropriate Growth index using the following factors:
Future long-term growth in earnings per share (EPS)
Future short-term growth in EPS
3-year historical growth in EPS
3-year historical growth in sales per share
Current investment-to-assets ratio, and return on assets.
Sector Indexes
CRSP developed and maintains Sector Indexes for all stocks included in the CRSP US Total Market Index segmented by the business characteristics of each issuing company. CRSP uses ICE Uniform Entity Sectors (UES) codes to assign issuing companies and their stock to the appropriate sector.
ESG Indexes
The CRSP ISS ESG Indexes are a unique, proprietary suite of “paired” indexes employing ESG performance ratings from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) to separate the CRSP US Large Cap Index universe into “Qualifying” (ESG) and “non-Qualifying” (Remainder) index pairs. Each index pair provides investors with a transparent, distinct, and representative partition of the entire US Large Cap equity market by the ESG rating of each underlying company.
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