Ronnee Ades has left her position as senior director of institutional markets at Dow Jones Indexes and joined FTSE Group as the head of its "Alternatives" business unit.

Currently, the index provider's REIT, commercial property, hedge fund, private banking and infrastructure indexes fall into this bailiwick. Ades will be responsible for growing those areas and also for identifying new areas in alternative assets and investment that present opportunities for FTSE.  

She will be based in FTSE's New York office and report to Paul Hansford, FTSE's director of product management.

While with Dow Jones Indexes, Ades was also the executive director of the Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes Technical Advisory Committee. She is currently on the corporate advisory board for the Pennsylvania Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems (PAPERS).