New digital-asset indexes seek to track the performance of the largest digital assets by market capitalization.
Financial data provider MSCI launched the first suite of digital-asset indexes, offering a way to help investors evaluate sources of risk and return opportunities across the global digital-assets ecosystem, according to a media release sent Friday.
These digital-asset indexes seek to track the performance of the largest digital assets by market capitalization; digital assets that utilize ex-proof-of-work blockchain consensus mechanisms; and digital assets associated with technology platforms supporting smart-contracts.
Swiss Involvement
The new indexes will leverage insights based on collaboration with Menai Financial Group (Menai), a provider of institutional-grade digital-asset investment products and trading services. The indexes will consist of a blend of single-digital-asset indexes designed and published by Compass Financial Technologies (Compass), a service provider on digital assets.
Compass, a Swiss-based company focused on the design, calculation and administration of market benchmarks and quantitative investment strategies, created the single-digital-asset indexes that are the foundational building blocks for MSCI’s new blended indexes.
More Transparency
«MSCI takes a systematic and process-oriented approach in providing information to help investors gain transparency and make better investment decisions,» Stephane Mattatia, Head of Thematic Indexes at MSCI, said.
