Renaissance Capital, founded in 1991, is the leading provider of independent research on newly public companies. The Firm's research is used by leading institutional investors to evaluate IPOs. Renaissance Capital's research is also distributed to over 15 million individual investors through major brokerage firms, including Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Using its proprietary research, Renaissance Capital, in conjunction with FTSE, has developed and maintains the FTSE Renaissance IPO Index Series, which includes the flagship benchmark Index, as well as a tradable subset of the benchmark Index that can be licensed as the basis for exchange-traded and OTC structured products. Renaissance Capital is also the advisor to the IPO Plus Aftermarket Fund (IPOSX), the first actively managed mutual fund to focus exclusively on IPOs, and it operates the popular www.RenaissanceCapital.com web site.