S&P Dow Jones Indices

The S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (S&P DJI) is a global provider of financial market indices and benchmark services. Formed in 2012 through a joint venture between S&P Global, CME Group, and News Corp, the company combines the index businesses of Standard & Poor's and Dow Jones Indexes. Headquartered in New York City, S&P Dow Jones Indices develops, maintains, and licenses a broad range of equity, fixed-income, commodity, cryptocurrency, volatility, and thematic indices used by investors worldwide. The company's indices serve as benchmarks for investment performance, passive investment strategies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), derivatives, and other financial products.

S&P Dow Jones Indices maintains thousands of indices covering global financial markets. Its flagship benchmarks include the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P Global 1200, the S&P Global BMI, the S&P/TSX Composite Index, the S&P BSE SENSEX, and numerous regional, sectoral, style, factor, dividend, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), and thematic indices. The company employs transparent, rules-based methodologies for index construction, using criteria such as market capitalization, free float, liquidity, financial viability, and sector classification. Its indices are reviewed periodically to reflect changes in constituent companies, corporate actions, and evolving market conditions.

The company's indices serve as the underlying benchmarks for a wide range of financial products, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), index mutual funds, futures, options, structured products, and other investment vehicles. Institutional investors, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and financial analysts use S&P DJI indices for portfolio benchmarking, performance evaluation, asset allocation, risk management, and passive investment strategies. The company also provides index calculation, custom index development, licensing services, market data, and analytical solutions to exchanges, financial institutions, and product issuers across global capital markets.

S&P Dow Jones Indices works closely with organizations including S&P Global, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, the BSE Limited, the Toronto Stock Exchange, MSCI Inc., FTSE Russell, and major financial institutions worldwide. Its index data are distributed through financial information providers such as Bloomberg L.P., FactSet, Morningstar, Inc., and other market data vendors. Through the development of transparent index methodologies and globally recognized benchmarks, S&P Dow Jones Indices has become one of the world's leading providers of financial market indices, supporting investment decision-making and capital market development across international financial markets.