Standard & Poor's Index Services offers investment professionals around the world
an array of choices, from efficiently representative indices to broadly comprehensive
benchmarks.
Today, Standard & Poor's indices are constructed and maintained with a rigorous
consistency that makes them compatible and complementary. This allows investors
to examine markets using a modular, building-block approach to comparing sectors
within countries, countries within regions, and regions within the world.
Standard & Poor's indices are constructed using data that are authoritative
and publicly available. They are transparent and designed to provide unbiased
and neutral measures of the markets. Standard & Poor's index methodologies clearly
articulate criteria that govern each constituent element of the index and are
always available on the web site. In addition, the S&P Index Committee, composed
of experienced analysts, ensures that the highest standards of methodological
compliance are continuously met for each index.
| 1920s |
Standard Statistics Company developed its first stock market indicator. |
| 1940s |
Standard Statistics and Poor's Publishing merge to form Standard & Poor's
in 1941. |
| 1950s |
Standard Statistics Company's legacy indices evolve into S&P 500 in 1957. |
| 1980s |
Futures and options trading on S&P 500 begins. |
| 1990s |
Introduction of U.S. indices of varying market capitalization and style
characteristics. |
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Introduction of the European indices with listings across European exchanges
and United Kingdom. |
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Partnership with Canadian and Japanese exchanges to expand global coverage. |
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Launch of Index Alert Data platform. |
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Completion of Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) reclassification
of U.S. equity indices. |
| 2000 |
Acquisition of the IFCI and IFCG emerging market indices from the World
Bank Group. |
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Partnership with the Australian Stock Exchange to introduce the S&P/ASX
index series. |
| 2001 |
Collaboration with the Russia's RTS-Interfax to produce the S&P/RUX indices. |
| 2002 |
Introduction of the S&P Hedge Fund Index. |
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Introduction of the S&P ADR Index. |
| 2003 |
Partnership with Italy's Borsa Italiana to introduce the S&P/MIB index. |
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Collaboration with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited to introduce
the S&P/HKEx indices. |
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Acquisition of the Citigroup Global Equity Index Series, formerly the
Salomon Smith Barney Index Series. |
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Introduction of 1st alternatively-weighted index, S&P Equal Weight Index. |
| 2004 |
Partnership with China's CITIC to create the S&P/CITIC index series. |
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Announcement of float adjustments adoptation for U.S. index constituents. |
| 2005 |
Launch of Custom Index Solutions. |
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Introduction of new S&P U.S. Style indices and S&P Pure Style indices. |
| 2006 |
Addition of Russia's RTS Index to global index family. |
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Introduction of the S&P Select Industry Indices. |
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Introduction of the S&P Completion Index and the S&P Total Market Index. |
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Introduction of the S&P/Case-Shiller® Home Price Index. |
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Introduction of the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index. |
