The bond index franchise includes bond indices spanning government, credit, and emerging markets bonds.  

In addition, the franchise includes tools and analytics which support the bespoke development of fixed income exposures. 

“We are excited to announce another significant step forward in our index expansion strategy, designed to strengthen our fixed income indexing capabilities, and broaden the services we provide to a growing international network of clients and partners,” said Tom Hendrickson, president, TMX VettaFi.  

“We see tremendous opportunity for indexing across the fixed income asset class – especially with the growth of bond ETFs – and we look forward to partnering with even more asset managers to unlock new bond ETF innovation.”   

Read more: TMX Group expands data-driven analytics and indexing solutions through $848 million VettaFi acquisition 

The development becomes the fourth acquisition by TMX VettaFi over the past 18 months. Recent acquisitions include iNDEX Research in October 2024, the ROBO Global index suite in April 2023 and EQM Indexes in September 2023.  

“Today fixed income represents approximately 20% of the ETF market, yet the total global bond market is $140 trillion, compared to the $115 trillion global equity market,” said Brian Coco, head of index product at TMX VettaFi.  

“With even stronger fixed income indexing capabilities,  VettaFi can truly provide outcome-oriented solutions to our clients across asset classes, as well as more precision exposures within fixed income.”  

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