Introduction

STOXX indices are divided into categories to provide market participants with optimal transparency and easy allocation for a rapidly growing product range. The categories are: STOXX Standard indices, iSTOXX, STOXX+ and Customized indices.

The first category, the STOXX Standard indices, is a globally consistent family covering all markets and all common index types, such as total market indices and sector, size, style and blue-chip indices.

Within this very comprehensive index family, the respective TMI equity universe is broken down logically from top down into sizes, sectors and themes. The rules for calculation, maintenance and selection are the same for all markets and regions without exceptions or hidden rules.

This means that the indices can be combined without methodological inconsistencies.

This results in a very clear, hierarchical index setup that is easy to understand and offers a broad variety of investable equity indices.