You would have thought 830,000 indices would be enough for anyone to play around with. But Alex Matturri, who became chief executive of the newly merged S&P Dow Jones Indices in 2012, doesn’t want to stop there.

Not content with seeing the value of its indices rising over $1.5 trillion and being the largest provider of indices to exchange-traded funds worth $500 billion, his company is adding another 100 indices every month, covering a variety of styles, currencies and technical opportunities.