NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2006 — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and Wilshire Associates, a global leader in investment technology, investment consulting and investment management, announced today the addition of a new member to the Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes Advisory Board.
Amy Schioldager, who is a managing director at Barclays Global Investors and heads its Equity Index Portfolio Management Team, joins the board just weeks after the October launch of the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index Family. As a member of the board, she will address issues related to measuring and monitoring the global equity market.
Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes, said: “Amy brings to the board more than 15 years worth of industry leadership in both international and domestic equity index funds.” Petronella added that, “Amy’s impressive research and management experience will add further strength to this esteemed board.”
Amy Schioldager said, “It will be an honor to discuss the global stock market and the correlating indexes with an advisory board that includes some of the most respected names in the industry.”
The San Francisco-based Schioldager, who recently spearheaded Barclays’ foray into global real estate indexing, becomes the ninth member of the board, which includes experts in the areas of money management, investment products, indexing, and pension and retirement plans.
The other board members are:
About the Dow Jones Wilshire Index Family
Anchored by the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index(sm), which includes more than 12,000 stocks in 56 countries with a float-adjusted market capitalization of nearly $34 trillion, the new index family seeks to measure all stocks with readily available prices in the world’s markets. The Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index Family is updated monthly and re-balanced semi-annually and uses a transparent, published, rules-based methodology.
The development of the global family of indexes marks a new phase of the Dow Jones-Wilshire relationship. The affiliation began in 2004 when Dow Jones and Wilshire co-branded and marketed the Dow Jones Wilshire family of indexes. Now, by extending the Dow Jones Wilshire methodology used in the U.S. internationally, the global indexes provide unprecedented breadth, consistent global coverage, and objective and transparent rules.
Float-adjusted capitalization-weighted versions of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, 4500, RESI and REIT indexes were launched on May 1, 2004. The large-, small- and micro-cap indexes, as well as growth and value indexes, were launched March 14, 2005. The top 10 industries, as defined by the Industry Classification Benchmark System(sm), were first published in August 2005, followed by the lower ICB(sm) hierarchy levels December 2005.
Dow Jones Wilshire indexes are available on market-data vendor platforms- many in real-time format-and on the Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) and Wilshire Associates (http://www.wilshire.com) Web sites. The Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index(sm) is calculated and distributed by Dow Jones Indexes pursuant to an agreement between Dow Jones & Company and Wilshire Associates Incorporated. “Dow Jones” and “Wilshire” are the respective service marks of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and Wilshire Associates Incorporated.