The DESLI™ family of indices tracks the change in loans in relation to shares outstanding. The advantage of the DESLI™ methodology is that it is not impacted by changes in price or by changes in trade volume so securities lending activity is not obscured by cash market movements.
The DESLI™ 50 covers the securities lending loan base for the fifty largest market capitalized companiesin the global traditional securities lending markets. The index has a market capitalization of $5.6 trillion (as of 12 January 2009) and a base of 100 on 02 January 2008.
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More than just quantity
Inventory Available to Lend is reported along with quantity on loan, this enables us to calculate proprietary fields such as Utilisation which is one of the key metrics in our quantitative indicators