London Stock Exchange Group’s FTSE Russell Shake-Up Starts Today as Russell Index Rebalance Enters New Phase
LONDON, April 30, 2026, 15:03 BST London Stock Exchange Group’s FTSE Russell on Thursday began the ranking stage of its 2026 Russell U.S. index reconstitution, a rules-based reshuffle that will decide which companies enter or leave one of the most widely watched sets of U.S. equity benchmarks. (LSEG) The timing matters because reconstitution is more than an index housekeeping exercise. Funds, asset managers and trading desks track the changes closely because index membership can affect demand for shares once portfolios tied to the benchmarks are adjusted. FTSE Russell says about $19.89 trillion is benchmarked to its indexes. (LSEG) This year
