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Products May 3, 2010
Dow Jones Adds to Required Business Performance Indexes
Dow Jones Indexes has announced the addition of four new indexes to its family of Dow Jones RBP Indexes.
Reported by Rebecca Moore
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 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 are licensed to Transparent Value LLC, a Guggenheim Partners Company, to underlie three mutual funds, according to Dow Jones Indexes.
The Required Business Performance (RBP) indexes were designed to measure the likelihood that companies can deliver the performance required to support their current stock prices. The indexes are created using rules-based, published analytics, RBP probability scores, supplied by Transparent Value, LLC. Components of the Dow Jones RBP Indexes are selected based on their RBP probabilities.