Clark Manning through 2010, in that year earning $2.1 million compensation. After stepping down from CEO of Jackson National Life in 2010, Manning was to serve as an adviser through the end of 2011. Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Prudential plc, praised Manning's for leaving at JNL "a strong legacy, having put together over the years a first-class management team and achieved excellent results...". Manning also was an analyst at Prudential Equity Group's Research Division (part of U.S.-based Prudential Financial and entirely unrelated to U.K.-based Prudential plc) at some point in his career. In 2015, he is a director and chairman of the
FTSE Group FTSE Group FTSE International Limited ( "footsie") trading as FTSE Group and FTSE Russell, is a British provider of stock market indices and associated data services, wholly owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and operating from premises in Canary Wharf. It operates the well known UK FTSE 100 Index and the Russell 2000 as well as a number of other indices. FTSE stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange. The FTSE Group was created in 1995 by Pearson (former parent of the "Financial Times") and the London Stock Exchange Group. In 2010, the joint venture with Xinhua Finance was terminated,