Indices:

ACM Indices Solution, provide specialise African equity and fixed income benchmark indices that contribute to efficient investment process; accurate performance benchmark and effective research tools, and as the basis for various investment vehicles. ACM’s indices are constructed using data that are reliable and publicly available. They are transparent and designed to provide impartial and neutral measures of the markets and ensures consistently in index construction and maintenance methodology across African markets, which makes it possible to aggregate individual country and industry indices to create meaningful composite, regional, sector and industry benchmarks.

 Products include: 

  • Africa, Regional and Country Equity Indices
  • Sector, Industry Group and Industry Indices
  • Strategy Indices (replicating quantitative strategies such as long/short or carry-trade)
  • Hedged and Risk Control Indices (such as margin loan/leverage index)  
  • Custom Equity Indices

We understand that clients are looking for more custom-made measures of performance, and require increasingly complex and sophisticated index solutions for the basis of fund measurement, derivatives and structured products.  

Below are potential needs or uses of custom indices 

  • Pension fund administrators/managers and asset managers may use custom indices to reflect specific investment criteria, such as using the indices to evaluate manager performance against the mandate.
  • Custom indices can also be used by quantitative managers who want to back-test a strategy or develop a specialized investment product.
  • Banks and Insurance may use them to help adhere to regulatory constraints and to minimize portfolio tracking error, as well as construct index-linked products (such as mutual funds, ETFs, derivatives, and structured products) that are designed to capture a unique investment opportunity.

ACM indices Solution, also offer creation of investible indices, index maintenance and serve as unbiased independent index valuator for investment communities. 

ACM Indices are available in local currency, USD, GBP and any specified currency, and price or total return index.  For more information contact info@acm-consult.com

 

News:


24 Oct 2011
50 years of Nigeria's Capital Markets
The ACM-Insight!, is a special commemorative focus on Nigeria’s capital market sector as it celebrates 50 years of existence. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Nigerian Stock Exchange celebrate half-acentury of activity.
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14 Jul 2011
ACM-Insight May-Aug OUT!!!
With special focus on the Insurance Sector, which boasts of critical analyses on the insurance sector in Africa, areas of future growth as well as an educational piece on general insurance, and looks at strategies for commercial banks and insurance companies to leverage off their business models and benefit from the impending insurance revolution in Africa.
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