Nasdaq: Nasdaq Launches passiveIQ for Investor Relations Professionals

First IR-specific solution to provide comprehensive passive index investment
data 

NEW YORK, 2018-01-16 15:02 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today
announced the launch of passiveIQ, a new analytics tool designed to provide
investor relations (IR) professionals with comprehensive and actionable
insights into passive index investment data from mutual funds and ETFs.
passiveIQ is available as a supplementary service to Nasdaq IR Insight. 

Index ownership has created a shift in today's capital markets: the value of
passive fund assets increased year over year by 30 percent to $6.6 trillion as
of the end of December 2017*. passiveIQ is the first IR-specific solution built
to benchmark passive ownership in a company's shares relative to its peers and
is designed to appeal to all public companies, regardless of market
capitalization or geographic location. passiveIQ's other features are designed
to help IR professionals understand the latest trends in index ownership and
gain insight into the index funds and ETFs they are, and are not, receiving
capital from. 

"The IR marketplace today provides a number of ways to discover details on the
active investment community, but companies are virtually left in the dark about
a growing part of their shareholder reality," said Stacie Swanstrom, Executive
Vice President and Head of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions. "With one-third of all
mutual fund and ETF assets under management now in passive index funds, the
need for an analytics-based solution with actionable insights on passive index
trends has never been greater. The comprehensive insights available through
Nasdaq's passiveIQ will help the IR community adapt to an evolving capital
markets landscape." 

passiveIQ also offers a comprehensive source of data, backed by the experienced
analysts from Nasdaq Advisory Services' index team, to help companies identify
indices for potential inclusion. 

Example trends and insights from passiveIQ include:

  -- For each company in the NASDAQ-100 Index, the average number of passive
     indices is 108 indices;
  -- The average passive index dollar ownership for a company listed in the
     Russell 3000 Index is $1.53 billion; and
  -- For each company in the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index, the average number of
     passive indices is 65 indices.

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions plans to further develop passiveIQ with additional
features, including rationales for index inclusion or exclusion, alerting
functionality around index rebalances and reconstitutions, and near real-time
passive index ownership changes. 

To learn more about Nasdaq's Investor Relations Solutions and subscribe to
passiveIQ, please visit: http://business.nasdaq.com/passiveIQ. 

About Nasdaq:

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) is a leading global provider of trading, clearing,
exchange technology, listing, information and public company services. Through
its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize
and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies
that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital
markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its
technology powers more than 90 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the
world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to approximately 3,900 total
listings with a market value of approximately $12 trillion. To learn more,
visit: http://business.nasdaq.com. 

This communication and the content found by following any link herein are being
provided to you by Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc.
("Nasdaq"), for informational purposes only. Nasdaq makes no representation or
warranty with respect to this communication or such content and expressly
disclaims any implied warranty under law. Nasdaq, the Nasdaq logo, Nasdaq
Corporate Solutions, Nasdaq IR Insight and passiveIQ are registered and
unregistered trademarks, or service marks, of Nasdaq, Inc. or its subsidiaries
in the U.S. and other countries. © Nasdaq, Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. 

*: Data from Nasdaq Corporate Solutions and Thomson Reuters Lipper

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