NEW YORK (May 18, 2009) — Dow Jones Indexes announced today that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow), the world’s longest running stock market indicator, has been licensed to Chuo Mitsui Asset Management, Japan to underlie two index funds.

Both index funds will use the Dow Jones Industrial Average TTM (JPY), a Japanese Yen-based version of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

“The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited U.S. market indicator worldwide. As international market participants seek to diversify their investments globally the Dow 30 is an excellent and obvious way to track the U.S. market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average calculated in Japanese Yen broadens the range of options for market participants in Japan to gain exposure to the performance of 30 leading companies in the United States,” said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes.

“With these two new product offerings tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average we further compliment our line-up of index-based investment funds available to the Japanese investment community. We selected the Dow as underlying due to its great popularity amongst Japanese investors as the major stock market indicator for the United States,” said Mr. Yasuhiro Inzen, manager business planning at Chuo Mitsui Asset Management, Japan.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index that measures 30 of the biggest and most widely recognized blue-chip stocks in the United States. Originally created by Charles Dow in 1896 to gauge the new industrial economy, the term “industrial” is broadly defined so the index accurately reflects the performance of the U.S. stock market today, covering such diverse industries as financial services, technology, retail, entertainment and consumer goods.

When the Dow was initially created, its value was calculated by adding up the component stock prices and dividing by the number of components. To calculate the index today, the sum of the stock prices are divided by an index divisor, which is used to adjust for stock splits and other corporate actions that may affect the index’s composition.

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