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August 7, 2024

Wilshire Indexes Appoints Courtney Scharff as Global Head of Commercial Strategy

London, 7 August 2024 – Wilshire Indexes, a leading global benchmark platform, has appointed Courtney Scharff as Global Head of Commercial Strategy. Based in NYC, Courtney will help deepen Wilshire Indexes’ commercial engagements and broaden strategic partnerships.

July 10, 2024

Wilshire Indexes Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Wilshire 5000

London, 10 July – Wilshire Indexes, a leading global benchmark platform, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original measure of the total US equity market, the Wilshire 5000, now known as the FT Wilshire 5000.

February 6, 2024

Wilshire Indexes collaborates with GLIO to create new market standard for infrastructure indexes

FT Wilshire GLIO Listed Infrastructure Index Series offers investors a world-class suite of institutional global infrastructure indexes

January 11, 2024

Wilshire Indexes Adds Nikkei Inc. as Long-Term Strategic Investor

Nikkei Inc. has made a strategic investment in Wilshire Indexes to accelerate the expansion and adoption of the global benchmark platform.

January 3, 2024

Wilshire Indexes Names Jessie Pak as Senior Advisor, Asia Pacific Benchmarks

Wilshire Indexes, a leading global benchmark platform, has appointed Jessie Pak as Senior Advisor Benchmarks.

November 14, 2023

Wilshire Indexes and Rayliant Global Advisors Use AI to Create Next Generation of Smart Beta Indexes

Harnessing machine learning and AI, the index series aims to better capture equity premiums from a robust universe of factors potentially leading to more stable systematic return harvesting.

October 27, 2023

Wilshire Indexes & Hang Seng Indexes Company collaborate to provide comprehensive offerings for Greater China-based institutional investors

Collaboration aims to formulate enriched index suite to better serve Greater-China Investment Community

September 26, 2023

Wilshire Indexes selects Alveo’s Data-as-a-Service solution for corporate actions data quality management

The scope of the service encompasses approximately 30 different corporate action types that impact security prices including splits, reverse splits, delistings and capital distributions including dividends.

August 22, 2023

Wilshire Indexes and Digital Asset Research add 66 More Digital Assets to Sector Classification System

The Digital Asset Taxonomy System now classifies 1,658 assets, the broadest coverage on the market

July 14, 2023

Wilshire Indexes Appoints Dan Berry as Head of EMEA Sales

Wilshire Indexes, a leading global benchmark platform, has appointed Dan Berry as head of EMEA sales.

May 23, 2023

Wilshire and Digital Asset Research add 123 More Digital Assets to Sector Classification System

The Digital Asset Taxonomy System now classifies 1,594 assets, the broadest coverage on the market

May 17, 2023

Uptick Adopts Digital Asset Taxonomy System to bring transparency to Digital Asset sector portfolio construction

Initiative brings additional transparency into pre and post-trade sector risk and performance analysis to inform asset allocation decisions

April 18, 2023

Wilshire Indexes authorized as a Benchmark Administrator

Wilshire now meets stringent standards of index governance to expand franchise in Europe

March 27, 2023

Wilshire launches new global indexing entity, Wilshire Indexes

Secures Financial Times and Singapore Exchange as new strategic partners to accelerate global adoption of the FT Wilshire index franchise

January 24, 2023

Wilshire announces partnership with FalconX as its preferred digital asset index product provider

New single-, multi-coin and thematic indexes offer seamless spot and swaps trading

November 30, 2022

Wilshire and Digital Asset Research add 80 More Digital Assets to Sector Classification System

The Digital Asset Taxonomy System now classifies 1,381 assets, offering the broadest coverage on the market

September 22, 2022

Wilshire Launches New Global Index Series

New FT Wilshire Global Equity Market Series captures global investment opportunities with greater precision

August 18, 2022

Wilshire and Digital Asset Research add 119 More Digital Assets to Sector Classification System

The Digital Asset Taxonomy System now classifies 1,301 assets, offering the broadest coverage on the market

July 26, 2022

Cloudwall Adopts Digital Asset Taxonomy System to Innovate Digital Asset Sector Data and Model Risk

Initiative reflects growing importance of institutional-grade standards for digital asset reference data and risk management

July 12, 2022

Wilshire Brings to Market Third Generation Factor Index Series

New index series features Pure Factor and Multi-Factor versions to offer investors precise control of factor exposures

May 10, 2022

Wilshire Adds CrossTower, Okcoin and eToroX to its Digital Asset Blended Price Methodology and Launches 25 New Indexes

Wilshire, a global investment technology and advisory company, today announced that CrossTower, Okcoin, and eToroX have been promoted from ‘watchlist’ to ‘contributing’ exchanges. Contributing exchanges help facilitate price discovery through the FT Wilshire Digital Asset Index Series which now features 38 blended price, multi-coin indexes/

March 30, 2022

Wilshire and DAR Publish Sector Classification of the Top 1000 Digital Assets

The pioneering Digital Asset Taxonomy System (DATS) is now available for investment research teams and product issuers to license — a pivotal milestone for institutional investors to access the emerging crypto asset class.

February 2, 2022

FT Launches Cryptocurrency Pricing Dashboard in Partnership with Wilshire

The Financial Times, in partnership with Wilshire, has today launched an easy-to-use data platform for pricing and insight into the digital assets market on FT.com, using the FT Wilshire Digital Asset Index Series.

December 14, 2021

Wilshire Announces Blythe Masters as Chair of New Digital Assets Advisory Group

Wilshire Digital Assets Advisory Group’s first initiative: Develop a standard transparent digital asset taxonomy system to categorize the top 1,000 digital asset technologies by market capitalization

November 9, 2021

Wilshire and Rayliant Collaborate to Develop New Generation of Quant Strategy Indexes

New indexes will use machine learning and behavioral finance to build new quantitative investment strategies for institutional investors

September 20, 2021

Wilshire and FT Launch Digital Asset Indexes to Bring More Reliable Data to Investors

The new index series in collaboration with CryptoCompare give institutional investors broad coverage of the crypto market Prices are aggregated from top-rated exchanges that meet investment-grade ratings and can be traded 24/7/365

June 30, 2021

Wilshire Launches Enhanced FT Wilshire 5000 Index Series

Complete coverage of total US investable market, more precise targeting of market exposure and more efficient implementation of asset allocation strategies.

February 20, 2021

Financial Times & Wilshire Announce Collaboration to Create Innovative Indexes, Analytics and Data Sets for Investors

Exclusive collaboration leverages the Financial Times’ global digital audience and Wilshire’s data, analytics and index capabilities to benefit Financial Times readers and investors worldwide. A worldwide license of the ‘FT’ mark will see the Wilshire 5000 enhanced and rebranded FT Wilshire 5000. Collaboration sees strengthening of the Wilshire Leadership Team to support its new growth vision.