Sector classification schemes
From Reuters Financial Glossary
“Sectors” allows you to classify companies within economic or industry sectors. Numerous sector classifications are available. Banks or companies might use their own sector classification schemes or third party sector classifications schemes. These schemes can be provided by governments, in which case they are production based schemes (SIC, NAICS, UN, Europe,…) As for market based sector schemes, the markets use generally schemes provided by third parties such as MSCI, ICB, S&P or Reuters.
Sector schemes are widely used and needed for loan books, CDS, Equity and other equity linked classification, ETFs, Fixed Income, Commodity, Funds, ….
Additional information on the following websites: Production based schemes:
UN – United Nations: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=2, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/ctryreg/default.asp?Lg=1
UK – United Kingdom: http://www.lib.strath.ac.uk/busweb/guides/indclassguide.htm#10
US – United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Industrial_Classification, http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/siccodes.htm, http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html, http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/sic.html, North American Industry Classification System, http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm,
Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/nace_all.html
Market Based Schemes
Reuters RBSS: Producs A-Z and Document Library http://www.ime.reuters.com/doclib/public/
GICS: http://www.mscibarra.com/products/gics/index.jsp, http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/eu/page.topic/indices_gics/
ICB: http://www.icbenchmark.com/
MSCI: http://www.mscibarra.com/products/indices/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCI_World, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCI_EAFE
