That performance encouraged Solactive AG, a German provider of indexes, and UBS to create in April a development bank bond
index family to make the debt more accessible for investors.
NEW YORK: S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Risk Parity Indices, its first
index family designed to replicate a multi-asset risk parity strategy.
S&P Dow Jones Indices is now publishing carbon metrics on the majority of its equity indexes, including the S&P Global 1200, S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial average and environmentally focused indexes including the S&P Global 1200 Carbon Efficient
Index Family and the S&P Global 1200 Fossil Fuel Free
Index Family.
Globally, more than $1.5 trillion in assets are benchmarked by money managers to the MSCI Emerging Markets
Index family.
The acquisition enables FTSE Russell to offer a comprehensive fixed income
index family, fixed income analytics to customers and a global brand for both equity and fixed income in North America, Asia and Europe.
The
index family will include an equal weighted index and other weighting methodologies that will provide alternatives to market capitalization weighted indices.
FOEX and Wood Resources International (WRI) have cooperatively launched two wood chip price indices, the Softwood Chip Global (SCG) and Hardwood Chip Global (HCG), both part of the PIX
index family of FOEX.
The underlying Index - MSCI China A International Index represents the component that will be added to MSCI's
index family if China listed stocks are included in their core series of indexes.
"We have expanded the existing MSCI Islamic
Index Family with the launch of the M-Series that addresses client demand for financial screening criteria based on market capitalization," said Rob Ansari, Executive Director and Head of Client Coverage at MSCI in the Middle East.
Most recently, S & P DJIA launched the S & P Momentum Indices, a brand-new factor-based
index family designed to measure the performance of securities in the global equity markets that exhibit persistence in their relative performance.
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