Morningstar Indexes is a benchmark and index-licensing service spanning equity, fixed income, sustainability, and custom institutional indexes.
Morningstar Indexes designs, calculates, and licenses benchmarks across equities, fixed income, sustainability, and multi-asset strategies for asset managers, wealth managers, ETF issuers, and institutional investors. The catalog spans US Core Bond, Global Treasury, Global Markets Sustainability, and themed strategy indexes, plus custom benchmarks tailored to client methodologies and corporate intellectual property.
The service builds on Morningstar's research datasets and ratings methodology and is closely tied to the company's index-services offering, which lets firms transform proprietary research into a licensable index. In 2026 the franchise expanded materially through Morningstar's acquisition of CRSP, the long-running US equity benchmark provider behind several Vanguard funds.
