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Bloomberg

Market data, indices, and analytics for institutional investment teams.

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01 — Overview

What Bloomberg does

Bloomberg Professional Services is a global financial data and analytics provider whose Terminal platform has long served as the reference standard for market data, pricing, research, and trading infrastructure across institutional finance. For family offices and investment teams operating across public markets, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets, the Terminal offers direct access to real-time pricing, news, analytics, and execution tools in a single environment. Bloomberg Economics also publishes macro research and AI-assisted forecasting models, including central bank sentiment indicators for the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England, accessible directly through Terminal functions.

Bloomberg's index business underpins a wide range of investment activities relevant to family office investment teams. The Currency Index family alone covers 40 currency markets across 174 indices, spanning FX Spot, FX Forward, and Non-Deliverable Forward products. Cross-asset index coverage includes:

  • Fixed income, equity, and multi-asset benchmarks
  • ESG and climate-themed indices
  • Digital asset indices
  • Commodity and thematic indices

The breadth of this offering means investment teams can source benchmarks, reference rates, and performance data for virtually any public market allocation from a single provider. Bloomberg Economics integrates AI and machine learning into macro forecasting, including satellite-based GDP trackers, NLP-driven central bank policy indicators, and time-series foundation models, giving research-oriented family offices access to institutional-grade analytical tools. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and access to the full Terminal suite carries a cost typically associated with institutional budgets, which may not suit smaller family offices operating with limited investment staff or narrower public markets exposure.

AI is expanding the data frontier. From natural language processing of central bank headlines to satellite imagery that can outperform official statistics, Bloomberg Economics uses the new tools to extract signals from unstructured sources.

On Bloomberg, from a family-office user
02 — Product & capabilities

What it covers

Core tasks
  • Accessing real-time and historical market data across asset classes
  • Benchmarking portfolio performance against published indices
  • Conducting macro research and economic forecasting
  • Monitoring FX markets and currency performance
  • Tracking ESG, digital asset, and thematic market exposures
  • Using AI-assisted tools for central bank policy analysis
Notable features
  • Bloomberg Terminal with integrated data, news, analytics, and execution
  • 174 currency indices covering developed and emerging markets
  • FX Allocation and FX Beta Indices with rolling schedules
  • Cross-asset index family including fixed income, equity, commodities, ESG, digital assets, and multi-asset
  • NLP-based central bank sentiment indicators for Fed, ECB, and Bank of England
  • Satellite-based monthly global GDP tracker
  • AI and machine learning macro forecasting models via Bloomberg Economics
  • Fixings and reference rates
  • Thematic indices
  • Index customisation service
Assets supported
Fixed IncomeEquityCurrency / FXCommoditiesDigital AssetsMulti-AssetESG / Climate
Platform & technology
Artificial IntelligenceBenchmarkingMulti-Currency SupportData Ingestion
03 — Company

The firm behind it

Ownership
Public (NYSE: BBGO is not listed; Bloomberg LP is privately held)
Software type
Desktop
Headquarters / markets
Global
04 — Clients & fit

Who it’s for

Built for Investment Teams, CIO / Investment Office, Single Family Office (SFO), Multi Family Office (MFO).

05 — Support & onboarding

Getting it running

Existing customers can contact index support via Instant Bloomberg; non-Terminal users can access a customer service center for index queries.