The classification used for the industrial sectors of FTSE100 is the new classification adopted by FTSE since the beginning of 2006, the Industry Classification Benchmark [70] created by Dow Jones Indexes and FTSE. This classification is divided into Industries,
Supersectors,
Sectors and
Subsectors. Our portfolio is composed of
industries and
sectors: Oil & Gas (Oil & Gas Producers), Basic Materials (Chemicals, Mining), Industrials (Construction & Materials, Aerospace & Defence, General Industrials, Industrial Transportation, Support Services), Consumer Goods (Beverages, Food Producers, Household Goods, Tobacco), Health Care (Health Care Equipment & Services, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology), Consumer Services (Food & Drug Retailers, General Retailers, Media, Travel & Leisure), Telecommunications (Fixed Line Telecommunications, Mobile Telecommunications), Utilities (Electricity, Gas Water & Multiutilities), Financials (Banks, Nonlife Insurance, Life Insurance, Real Estate, General Financial, Equity Investment Instruments, Nonequity Investment Instruments) and Technology (Software & Computer Services). We represent each industry by a symbol: Oil & Gas (
), Basic Materials (
), Industrials (
), Consumer Goods (grey
), Health Care (
), Consumer Services (
), Telecommunications (
), Utilities (
), Financials (grey
) and Technology (
).
The coding for the world indices is: Europe, grey circles (grey ); North America, white diamonds (
); South America, grey squares (grey
); Asian-Pacific area, black triangles (
); and ``other'' (Israel, Jordan, Turkey, South Africa), white squares (
).