Investment, Retirement Products & Licensing
The product layer built on top of LIX markets, benchmarks and indices: licensed indices, ETFs, structured products, options and potential retirement solutions that can extend the market to a broader investor base.
From market to product
The futures market creates prices. Benchmarks and indices organize those prices. Once those foundations exist, banks, asset managers and retirement companies can use them as building blocks for new financial products, subject to product design, liquidity and applicable approvals.
What could be built?
Potential products include ETFs linked to LIX indices, structured notes, options, institutional strategies and retirement-oriented products. The objective is not to force every investor into a futures account. It is to let product manufacturers package different parts of the market in forms that fit different users.
The retirement opportunity
Over time, LIX indices could support products that connect market-based life-expectancy information with retirement investing and income. That creates a path from an institutional risk market to exchange-traded or workplace-retirement solutions that help investors participate in a market tied to one of retirement's central uncertainties: how long income may be needed.
Licensing
LIX can license benchmarks, indices and related intellectual property to asset managers, banks, retirement platforms and other product manufacturers. That allows third parties to build on the market while LIX remains the underlying market, benchmark and data layer.
The exchange is the beginning, not the end.
A successful market can support an ecosystem of data users, benchmark users, product manufacturers and investors far beyond the institutions that trade the original futures contracts.