Atherstone Index Product Group, part of Atherstone Capital Markets Limited a global investment banking organisation provides support services in terms of value added indices to Institutions, Market intermediateries and Global investors on Equity markets. The group constructs indices for various markets and for various equities as an underlying universe. Index is a statistical measure used to compare prices over two periods of time and is generally used to track and judge the markets. The ideal index also gives the expectations of the market behavior. The different types of investors who can track the indices can be financial intermediateries, regulators and government agencies, fund managers, corporate sector, credit rating agencies etc. The main advantages of indices are that it shows returns of the underlying universe rather than of a particular stock. It also has a back history which can be used for reference purposes. Even the methodology used is standard and transparent and not biased.