China Securities Index Company (

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: 中证指数有限公司) is a Chinese financial research firm and

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provider. The company was founded in August 25, 2005 as a joint venture between the

Shanghai Stock Exchange The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shanghai, China. It is one of the three stock exchanges operating independently in mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exc ...

and the

Shenzhen Stock Exchange The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE; ) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shenzhen, in the People's Republic of China. It is one of three stock exchanges operating independently in Mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Excha ...

. CSI is an index provider in China and manages over 4,000 indexes. The company also offers

bond valuation Bond valuation is the determination of the fair price of a bond. As with any security or capital investment, the theoretical fair value of a bond is the present value of the stream of cash flows it is expected to generate. Hence, the value of a ...

and

credit rating A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting. ...

services. As of 2020, CSI has 138 employees. While CSI indexes only cover Chinese securities, they are heavily used by investors worldwide. Multiple

investment products An investment fund is a way of investing money alongside other investors in order to benefit from the inherent advantages of working as part of a group such as reducing the risks of the investment by a significant percentage. These advantages inc ...

including

exchange-traded product An exchange-traded product (ETP) is a regularly priced security which trades during the day on a national stock exchange. ETPs may embed derivatives but it is not a requirement that they do so - and the investment memorandum (or offering documents ...

s use CSI indexes as their benchmarks, including the KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF and Direxion Daily China A Share ETFs.

Notable Indexes

* The CSI 100 Index * The CSI 200 Index * The CSI 300 Index * The CSI 500 Index * The CSI Overseas China Internet Index

Notable ETFs linked to CSI indexes

References

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