Category: ESP
ESP – S&P Global Announces Modifications to Telecommunications Sector
– S&P Global has decided to make the telecom sector more representative of the communications world and include companies that are predominately communications oriented. As more and more companies have become involved in communications the sector designation, telecommunications services, has been uncomfortable. Several communications companies have been “force fit” into other areas that make an investor question the assignment. The change will take place next year in September. There is a very good description of the change proposed in the following write-up from Jodie Gunzburg at S&P Global.
ESP – S&P Global Announces Commodity Weights for 2018 Index
S&P Dow Jones Indices today announced the composition and weights for the 2018 S&P GSCI. The S&P GSCI is a world production-weighted commodity index which, in 2018, will be composed of 24 exchange-traded futures contracts on physical commodities across five sectors including: energy, industrial metals, precious metals, agricultural and livestock.
ESP – S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Decision on Multi-Class Shares and Voting Rules
The S&P Composite 1500® and its component indices will no longer add companies with multiple share class structures. Existing index constituents are grandfathered in and are not affected by this change.
ESP – S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes to the S&P U.S. Indices Methodology and to the Pricing of Bankrupt U.S. Listed Securities
S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”) today announces updates to the S&P U.S. Indices and S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Equity Indices Policies & Practices Methodologies