Providers set to spar amid multi-asset index boom

Major index houses set to bet big on new product class

Gareth Parker, FTSE Russell

The rush to create new families of multi-asset indexes is likely to spark clashes between the major index providers, a senior executive at one of the market's largest players has said, as the trend towards independent providers looking to combine separate asset classes within single indexes accelerates.

In a forthcoming interview with Risk.net, Gareth Parker, senior director for index research, design and development at the newly merged FTSE Russell group, says the current wave of experimentatio