GICS (The Global Industry Classification Standard from MSCI) and ICB (Industry Classification Benchmark from FTSE/LSE/Dow Jones) seem to dominate the securities industry sector data market.
There are alternatives available from players such at ICE, but in all cases, they are proprietary, and as far as i can tell pretty much identical.
11 top level sectors, which are then split into more and more granular sub-categories.
I’m fairly certain that nobody really has any use for the most granular sub-sectors which contain >160 sectors… But the high and mid level classifications would be really useful.
You can theoretically grab sector weightings data from Yahoo Finance by ticker code… But i’d ideally like to be able to use either Sedol or ISIN to look values up.
I’m sure there are others who would like something like this, so before i think about trying to create my own gizmo for it i was wondering if anybody has done anything similar?
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