S&P Dow Jones launches S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Select Index

By Tali Rackner

Norfolk, Va., Nov. 24 – S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the launch of the S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Select Index, adding to its family of low volatility and factor indexes, according to a press release.

The new index is licensed to Commerzbank.

The S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Select Index is an investable index that measures the performance of the 50 least volatile stocks within the S&P Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index.

Amongs the 50 stocks, those with the least volatility receive the highest weights in the new index, which is rebalanced quarterly, the release said.

“We have seen an increased demand for emerging market indices that provide a low volatility tilt. S&P Dow Jones Indices is excited to launch the S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Select Index which offers investors another way to measure and potentially access the emerging markets which continue to garner strong interest,” S&P Dow Jones senior director of index strategy Vinit Srivastava said in the release.

S&P Dow Jones is part of New York-based McGraw-Hill Cos., a resource for index-based concepts, data and research.

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