Along with new market systems and new product structures, new investment ideas are also proliferating. Various indexes and portfolios now allow investors to access innovative and imaginative investment opportunities with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency. New indexes or portfolios based on stock market sectors, commodities, capitalization groupings, themes, micro-segments, mega-trends and quantitative models are becoming available each day. They enable investors to construct well-diversified portfolios that target specific needs and objectives, while allowing instantaneous online access to price and other data.

Many of these new ideas are timely and require rapid response on the part of market participants. And to bring information to the market in timely fashion, PIN is planning a series of Hot Topic Events to take place as required over the coming months.