‘Designer’ indices bolster portfolios, benchmarks may now hinder

SRP spoke with Laurence Black (pictured), founder of The Index Standard, to explore the firm’s key role in bridging the awareness gap surrounding index complexities, and the shift in investor interest from traditional benchmark underlyings towards innovative diversifiers. At its core, the start-up index firm rates and evaluates all indices used in the US insurance and structured product spaces, and possesses the further goal to educate the market and increase awareness of the index mechan