Wilshire Indexes help clients, investment professionals and researchers accurately measure and better understand the market. The Wilshire Index family leverages more than 40 years of Wilshire performance measurement expertise and employs unbiased construction rules.

The flagship Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index^SM (Wilshire 5000®), widely accepted as the definitive benchmark for the U.S. stock market, celebrates 40 years this year. Developed in 1974 to address a clear gap in the market, the Wilshire 5000 offers a robust alternative to a market proxy of just 500 stocks that, by nature, falls short as a basis for risk measurement and diversification by missing a significludes the Wilshire 5000, Wilshire 4500 Completion and a suite of Wilshire size and style indexes designed to help investors evaluate performance of style managers.

• Wilshire Real Estate Family: aims to measure the real estate market without the limitations of appraisal-based indexes and instead uses focused, publicly traded real estate, equity securities. Global real estate indexes included in 2006.
• Wilshire Liquid Alternative Family: aims to provide broad measure of the liquid alternative market, as well as sub-strategies, and measures alternative investment strategies accessed via liquid ’40 Act mutual funds.
• Wilshire TargetIncome Family: aims to measure investment strategies that offer broad exposure to income-producing asset classes, using a universe of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and aim to achieve set, annualized target income yields while minimizing overall portfolio risk through a unique optimization approach. 
• Wilshire Business Development Company Index^SM: aims to measure performance of publicly-traded BDCs that focus on the debt financing of small, developing and financially troubled companies.

Powered By Wilshire^SM

• Powered by Wilshire: allows investment and fund managers to marry their proprietary index methodology with Wilshire’s well-respected brand, time-tested index calculation engine and state-of-the-art distribution platform. The new offering provides an independent, 3rd party implemented solution for historical index data to support marketing efforts as well as ongoing calculations.

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• Wilshire TargetIncome Family: aims to measure investment strategies that offer broad exposure to income-producing asset classes, using a universe of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and aim to achieve set, annualized target income yields while minimizing overall portfolio risk through a unique optimization approach. 
• Military Times Best for VETS Index^SM, Powered by Wilshire: designed by VETS Indexes, measures performance of publicly traded companies selected from the Military Times Best for Vets: Employers annual ranking survey.
• Sage ESG Intermediate Credit Index^SM, Powered by Wilshire: designed by Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co., measures an investment strategy that aims to maximize exposure to positive Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) characteristics, while maintaining high liquidity.