NEW YORK, May 12, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that it has been named "Most Innovative ETF Index Provider- Americas" for the second consecutive year.
The award was presented at the 5th Annual ETF Global Awards dinner hosted by Exchangetradedfunds.com. Award winners were based on votes cast by more than 480 organizations and professionals in the ETF industry worldwide.
"Winning this prestigious award for the second consecutive year demonstrates yet again Dow Jones Indexes' dedication to innovation and excellence in reliable, consistent and sophisticated indexing. In the past twelve years, Dow Jones Indexes has been contributing to the constantly evolving index world with unique concepts such as the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, Dow Jones Titans Indexes, Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes and the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes," said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes. "We remain strongly committed to further expand the range of superior and significant indexes available to the investment community."
There are currently 92 exchange-traded funds based on Dow Jones and Dow Jones STOXX Indexes that are available in the Americas region. Globally, there are 405 exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes based on Dow Jones and Dow Jones STOXX Indexes that measure various markets, sectors and asset classes, including Dow Jones Titans Indexes, Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes, Dow Jones and Dow Jones STOXX Select Dividend Indexes, Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes as well as Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes.
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About Dow Jones Indexes
A full-service index provider, Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes also is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX indexes, the world's leading pan-European indexes that are an integrated segment of the Dow Jones Global Index series. Additionally, Dow Jones Indexes maintains its benchmark index series, the Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes, which is anchored by the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index and covers more than 12,000 securities in 65 markets. Beyond equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes maintains a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. www.djindexes.com
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV) (www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.
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