The boom in ETF assets helped index providers collect a record $5bn in revenue in 2021, a new report shows.
Overall, index providers collected 23 per cent more in revenue last year than they did in 2020, according to a report from Burton-Taylor International Consulting. Over the past five years, the compound annual growth rate averaged 11.7 per cent.
More than two-thirds of that revenue went to the three largest index providers, the report said. MSCI collected $1.3bn in revenue last year, S&P Dow Jones Indices added $1.1bn and FTSE Russell pulled in $1.1bn. MSCI’s revenue grew 19 per cent from 2020, S&P Dow Jones’s was up 14 per cent, and FTSE Russell’s was 33 per cent higher.