NEW YORK, May 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the addition of four new indexes to its family of Dow Jones RBP Indexes. The new series of indexes include three directional strategy indexes and one fundamentally weighted U.S. market index. The three strategy indexes are the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Aggressive Index, the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Defensive Index, and the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Market Index. The fundamentally weighted market index, the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index (RBP weighted), provides market participants with additional rules-based information to measure the valuation of publicly traded companies included in the index.
Dow Jones Indexes and Transparent Value LLC announced the launch of the Dow Jones Required Business Performance (RBP) Index series. The new indexes measure the likelihood that a company can deliver the performance required to support its current stock price according to Transparent Value’s proprietary RBP methodology. The Dow Jones RBP Large-Cap 130/30 Indexes, the first indexes in the series, use the RBP probability metrics to create 130/30 investment strategy indexes based on U.S. large-cap stocks.