Definitions
In plain terms
It may hold every constituent in index weights or use a representative sample when full replication is costly or impossible.
Technical
The design requires target index and variant, holdings and cash, prices, corporate actions, rebalances, constraints, sampling, costs, taxes, lending, and tracking measurement.
Scope
The index itself is a calculation; a replication portfolio has implementation frictions and can diverge.
Examples
- A governed methodology records replication portfolio with its source, cutoff, units, parameters, and effective version.
Common misconceptions
- Replication Portfolio does not have one universal implementation without the declared methodology, data basis, and constraints.
Concept relationships
Prerequisites
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Where this concept is used
Evidence and governance
- FTSE Russell Index Policy and Methodology Library FTSE Russell, London Stock Exchange Group · first party methodology
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition
Limits: The library links multiple documents with separate versions and applicability; the effective document must be identified.
- Fintech Builder Glossary Definition Contract The Fintech Builder · internal governed contract
Supports: variant distinction
Limits: Defines governed platform behavior rather than claiming these policies are universally prescribed by external McClellan methodology.
- Reviewed by
- fintech-builder-batch-004
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-27
- Next review
- 2027-07-27
- Record status
- evidence reviewed
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