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The
FTSE 250 Index is a market capitalisation-weighted index of 250 companies on the London Stock Exchange. They are selected quarterly as being the 101st to 350th largest companies with their primary listing on the exchange. Promotions to and from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December.
Related indices are the FTSE 100 Index (which lists the largest 100 companies), the
FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), the
FTSE SmallCap Index and the
FTSE All-Share Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 250 Index and FTSE SmallCap Index).
Quite a number of companies within this index are
investment trusts.
List of FTSE 250 Index companies
This reflects the quarterly reshuffle effected on 2007-09-24.
1-125
3i Infrastructure
ARM Holdings plc
Abbot Group plc
Aberdeen Asset Management plc
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc
Admiral Group plc
Aegis Group plc
Aga Foodservice Group plc
Aggreko plc
Alliance Trust PLC
AMEC plc
Amlin plc
Aquarius Platinum Limited
Arriva plc
Ashmore Group plc
Ashtead Group plc
WS Atkins PLC
Autonomy Corporation PLC
Aveva
Axon Group
BBA Group plc
BSS Group plc
Babcock International Group plc
Balfour Beatty plc
Bankers Investment Trust plc
Beazley Group plc
Bellway plc
Benfield Group Limited
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc
Biffa plc
Big Yellow Group PLC
Bluebay Asset Management
Bodycote International plc
Bovis Homes Group plc
Bradford & Bingley
Brit Insurance Holdings plc
British Assets Trust plc
British Empire Securities and General Trust plc
Britvic plc
Brixton plc
N Brown Group plc
Bunzl plc
Burberry Group plc
Burren Energy plc
CSR plc
Cairn Energy
Caledonia Investments plc
Candover Investments
Capital & Regional plc
Carillion plc
Carpetright plc
Catlin Group Limited
Cattles plc
Charter plc
Chemring Group
City of London Investment Trust plc
Close Brothers Group plc
Cobham plc
Collins Stewart plc
COLT Telecom Group plc
Cookson Group plc
Croda International plc
Daejan Holdings plc
Dairy Crest Group plc
Dana Petroleum plc
Davis Service Group plc
De La Rue plc
Debenhams plc
Derwent London
Dexion Absolute Limited
Dimension Data Holdings plc
Domestic & General
Drax Group
Eaga
easyJet plc
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc
Electra Private Equity plc
Electrocomponents plc
Emap plc
Enodis plc
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Expro International Group PLC
F&C Asset Management plc
F&C Commercial Property Trust plc
FKI plc
Ferrexpo
Fidelity European Values plc
Filtrona plc
Findel plc
FirstGroup plc
Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC
Forth Ports plc
G4S
GKN plc
Galiform
Galliford Try
GAME (retailer)
Gem Diamonds
Go-Ahead Group plc
Grainger Trust plc
Great Portland Estates plc
Greene King plc
Greggs plc
Gyrus Group PLC
HMV Group plc
Halfords Group plc
Halma plc
Hargreaves Lansdown
Hays plc
Headlam Group plc
Helphire Group plc
Henderson Group plc
Hikma
Hiscox plc
Hochschild Mining
Homeserve plc
Hunting PLC
IG Group
IMI plc
ITE Group
Inchcape plc
Informa plc
Inmarsat plc
Intermediate Capital Group plc
International Personal Finance
126-250
Interserve
Intertek Group plc
Invensys plc
Investec plc
Invista Foundation Property Trust Limited
JKX Oil and Gas plc
JPMorgan Eur Investment Trust plc
JPMorgan Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust plc
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc
Johnston Press
Kelda Group
Keller plc
Kesa Electricals plc
Kier Group
Ladbrokes plc
Laird Group plc
LogicaCMG plc
London Stock Exchange plc
Luminar Leisure
MITIE Group plc
Mapeley plc
Marshalls plc
Marston's
McAlpine (Alfred) plc
Meggitt plc
Merchants Trust plc
Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust plc
Michael Page International plc
Micro Focus International
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc
Minerva plc
Misys plc
Mondi
Money Supermarket
Monks Investment Trust plc
Morgan Crucible Co plc
Morgan Sindall plc
Mouchel
Murray Income Trust (Ord) plc
Murray International Trust (Ord) plc
National Express Group plc
New Star Asset Management
Northern Foods plc
Northgate plc
Northumbrian Water Group plc
PZ Cussons plc
Paragon Group of Companies plc
PartyGaming
Pendragon plc
Pennon Group plc
Perpetual Income & Growth Investment Trust plc
Petrofac
Premier Farnell plc
Premier Foods plc
Premier Oil plc
Provident Financial plc
PV Crystalox Solar
QXL
QinetiQ
Quintain Estates and Development plc
RIT Capital Partners plc
RPS Group plc
Randgold Resources plc
Rank Group plc
Rathbone Brothers plc
Redrow plc
Regus
Renishaw plc
Restaurant Group
Rightmove
Rotork plc
SIG plc
SSL International plc
SThree plc
SVG Capital plc
Savills plc
Scottish Investment Trust plc
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc
SEGRO
Serco Group plc
Severfield-Rowen
Shaftesbury plc
Shanks Group plc
Signet Group plc
Smith (DS) plc
Soco International plc
Southern Cross Healthcare plc
Spectris plc
Speedy Hire plc
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc
Spirent plc
Sports Direct
St.James's Place Capital plc
St.Modwen Properties plc
Stagecoach Group plc
TR Property Investment Trust plc
TR Property Investment Trust plc (sigma shares)
TUI Travel
Talvivaara Mining Company
Taylor Nelson Sofres
Temple Bar Investment Trust plc
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc
Thomas Cook Group
Tomkins plc
Travis Perkins plc
Trinity Mirror plc
Tullett Prebon plc
UK Coal
UK Commercial Property Trust
Ultra Electronics Holdings plc
UNITE Group plc
United Business Media plc
VT Group plc
Venture Production plc
Victrex plc
WH Smith plc
WSP Group
Weir Group plc
Wellstream
Wetherspoon (J D) plc
William Hill plc
Wincanton PLC
Witan Investment Trust plc
Wood Group (John) plc
Workspace Group plc
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The
FTSE 250 Index is a
market capitalisation-weighted index of 250 companies on the London Stock Exchange. They are selected quarterly as being the 101st to 350th largest companies with their primary listing on the exchange. Promotions to and from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December.
Related indices are the
FTSE 100 Index (which lists the largest 100 companies), the
FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), the
FTSE SmallCap Index and the
FTSE All-Share Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 250 Index and FTSE SmallCap Index).
Quite a number of companies within this index are
investment trusts.
List of FTSE 250 Index companies
This reflects the quarterly reshuffle effected on
2007-09-24.
1-125
3i Infrastructure
ARM Holdings plc
Abbot Group plc
Aberdeen Asset Management plc
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc
Admiral Group plc
Aegis Group plc
Aga Foodservice Group plc
Aggreko plc
Alliance Trust PLC
AMEC plc
Amlin plc
Aquarius Platinum Limited
Arriva plc
Ashmore Group plc
Ashtead Group plc
WS Atkins PLC
Autonomy Corporation PLC
Aveva
Axon Group
BBA Group plc
BSS Group plc
Babcock International Group plc
Balfour Beatty plc
Bankers Investment Trust plc
Beazley Group plc
Bellway plc
Benfield Group Limited
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc
Biffa plc
Big Yellow Group PLC
Bluebay Asset Management
Bodycote International plc
Bovis Homes Group plc
Bradford & Bingley
Brit Insurance Holdings plc
British Assets Trust plc
British Empire Securities and General Trust plc
Britvic plc
Brixton plc
N Brown Group plc
Bunzl plc
Burberry Group plc
Burren Energy plc
CSR plc
Cairn Energy
Caledonia Investments plc
Candover Investments
Capital & Regional plc
Carillion plc
Carpetright plc
Catlin Group Limited
Cattles plc
Charter plc
Chemring Group
City of London Investment Trust plc
Close Brothers Group plc
Cobham plc
Collins Stewart plc
COLT Telecom Group plc
Cookson Group plc
Croda International plc
Daejan Holdings plc
Dairy Crest Group plc
Dana Petroleum plc
Davis Service Group plc
De La Rue plc
Debenhams plc
Derwent London
Dexion Absolute Limited
Dimension Data Holdings plc
Domestic & General
Drax Group
Eaga
easyJet plc
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc
Electra Private Equity plc
Electrocomponents plc
Emap plc
Enodis plc
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Expro International Group PLC
F&C Asset Management plc
F&C Commercial Property Trust plc
FKI plc
Ferrexpo
Fidelity European Values plc
Filtrona plc
Findel plc
FirstGroup plc
Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC
Forth Ports plc
G4S
GKN plc
Galiform
Galliford Try
GAME (retailer)
Gem Diamonds
Go-Ahead Group plc
Grainger Trust plc
Great Portland Estates plc
Greene King plc
Greggs plc
Gyrus Group PLC
HMV Group plc
Halfords Group plc
Halma plc
Hargreaves Lansdown
Hays plc
Headlam Group plc
Helphire Group plc
Henderson Group plc
Hikma
Hiscox plc
Hochschild Mining
Homeserve plc
Hunting PLC
IG Group
IMI plc
ITE Group
Inchcape plc
Informa plc
Inmarsat plc
Intermediate Capital Group plc
International Personal Finance
126-250
Interserve
Intertek Group plc
Invensys plc
Investec plc
Invista Foundation Property Trust Limited
JKX Oil and Gas plc
JPMorgan Eur Investment Trust plc
JPMorgan Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust plc
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc
Johnston Press
Kelda Group
Keller plc
Kesa Electricals plc
Kier Group
Ladbrokes plc
Laird Group plc
LogicaCMG plc
London Stock Exchange plc
Luminar Leisure
MITIE Group plc
Mapeley plc
Marshalls plc
Marston's
McAlpine (Alfred) plc
Meggitt plc
Merchants Trust plc
Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust plc
Michael Page International plc
Micro Focus International
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc
Minerva plc
Misys plc
Mondi
Money Supermarket
Monks Investment Trust plc
Morgan Crucible Co plc
Morgan Sindall plc
Mouchel
Murray Income Trust (Ord) plc
Murray International Trust (Ord) plc
National Express Group plc
New Star Asset Management
Northern Foods plc
Northgate plc
Northumbrian Water Group plc
PZ Cussons plc
Paragon Group of Companies plc
PartyGaming
Pendragon plc
Pennon Group plc
Perpetual Income & Growth Investment Trust plc
Petrofac
Premier Farnell plc
Premier Foods plc
Premier Oil plc
Provident Financial plc
PV Crystalox Solar
QXL
QinetiQ
Quintain Estates and Development plc
RIT Capital Partners plc
RPS Group plc
Randgold Resources plc
Rank Group plc
Rathbone Brothers plc
Redrow plc
Regus
Renishaw plc
Restaurant Group
Rightmove
Rotork plc
SIG plc
SSL International plc
SThree plc
SVG Capital plc
Savills plc
Scottish Investment Trust plc
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc
SEGRO
Serco Group plc
Severfield-Rowen
Shaftesbury plc
Shanks Group plc
Signet Group plc
Smith (DS) plc
Soco International plc
Southern Cross Healthcare plc
Spectris plc
Speedy Hire plc
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc
Spirent plc
Sports Direct
St.James's Place Capital plc
St.Modwen Properties plc
Stagecoach Group plc
TR Property Investment Trust plc
TR Property Investment Trust plc (sigma shares)
TUI Travel
Talvivaara Mining Company
Taylor Nelson Sofres
Temple Bar Investment Trust plc
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc
Thomas Cook Group
Tomkins plc
Travis Perkins plc
Trinity Mirror plc
Tullett Prebon plc
UK Coal
UK Commercial Property Trust
Ultra Electronics Holdings plc
UNITE Group plc
United Business Media plc
VT Group plc
Venture Production plc
Victrex plc
WH Smith plc
WSP Group
Weir Group plc
Wellstream
Wetherspoon (J D) plc
William Hill plc
Wincanton PLC
Witan Investment Trust plc
Wood Group (John) plc
Workspace Group plc
Xchanging
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