SAM, the investment boutique focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing, together with Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider and the Korea Productivity Center (KPC), the agency tasked to increase productivity within the Korean industry, today launch two dedicated sustainability indexes for Korea. The Dow Jones Sustainability Korea Index (DJSI Korea) is designed to track the sustainability leaders among South Korea’s 200 largest companies by free-float market capitalization. The current composition includes a total of 41 sustainability leaders.
Dow Jones Indexes and the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) plan to launch the Dow Jones FEAS Indexes on Friday, June 5. This is the first time indexes are created to measure the performance of companies across the Euro-Asian region. The three indexes that are being launched on Friday are a composite, and two regional sub-indexes. The Dow Jones FEAS Indexes are designed to underlie index-linked investment products such as funds and structured products.
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.
CME Group announced it has renewed its contract with Dow Jones Indexes. The agreement enables the exchange to continue to exclusively offer futures and options on futures products based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA℠) and other Dow Jones Indexes, which are some of the most recognized benchmarks in the financial industry.
Dow Jones Indexes and China Business Network Co. Ltd. (CBN) signed an agreement to create a series of sector blue-chip indexes based on the Dow Jones CBN China 600 Index. The launch date for these indexes is scheduled for June 2005.
Dow Jones Indexes, Markit Group Limited and CDS IndexCo, a consortium of sixteen investment banks, today announced that they have signed agreements governing the calculation, marketing and licensing of the Dow Jones CDX Indexes, the market-leading suite of North American and Emerging Market credit derivative indexes.
Dow Jones Indexes, a world leader in index calculation and management, announced today that it has finalized its agreement with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan to lead the future development of TRAC-X, the market-leading global suite of credit default swap (”CDS”) index products that was formed in April 2003.