ICE offers the broadest suite of highly liquid, cost-effective and margin-efficient tools for managing U.K. equity risk across FTSE 100, FTSE 250 futures and options, FTSE100 Dividend Futures and FTSE ESG Risk-Adjusted Futures.
The FTSE UK Index Series (calculated by FTSE Russell) is designed to represent the performance of U.K. companies, providing market participants with a comprehensive and complementary set of indexes that measure the performance of all capital and industry segments of the U.K. equity market. The FTSE UK Index Series includes well-known indices such as the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. The indices are long established among institutional and retail investors as the standard measure of the country’s equity market health. Learn more about the FTSE UK Index Series
These indices adjust for carbon risk exposure in the parent index and provide an ESG Score improvement through a reweighting of the constituents. The ESG uplift, carbon emissions intensity reduction and carbon reserves reduction are calculated under a set of constraints to minimize tracking error to the parent index.
FTSE 100 Futures, FTSE 250 Futures and FTSE 100 Dividend Futures (“the futures contracts”) have all been granted U.S. regulatory approval which means the futures contracts can be made available for offer and sale to U.S. persons and traded directly from the United States.