It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds ETFs , mutual funds, and structured products. The company currently has employees in 15 cities worldwide, including New York , London , Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong , Beijing, and Dubai. The company also manages the oldest index in use, the Dow Jones Transportation Index , created in by Charles Dow , the founder of The Wall Street Journal.

A market index plural: It enables the world's institutional and retail investors to track a market or market sector without having to aggregate the underlying components.

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It is a convenient way for someone interested in a broad, narrow, or extremely narrow group of securities to track them. Pension funds and other money managers often use indexes as benchmarks. This means that "active" investors those who pick various securities to buy and hold for their returns track their own returns against a benchmark index an index that typifies its market to see if they are out- or under-performing that market.

Investors who do not want to do this those who buy into indexes or securities that use indexes as their basis are called "passive" investors. They are known to link their portfolios to the broad market and do not try to outguess conventional market wisdom.

Passive investors argue that almost no active investors can beat the overall markets in the long-term. This choice is described by a theory in investing called the efficient market hypothesis. The DJI has over , indexes, although many are used by only relatively few people. Most are principally equity stock indexes but also contain fixed-income, futures, options, private equity, commodity, currency, bond, and other alternative asset class metrics.

Dow Jones Indexes says that all its products are maintained according to clear, unbiased, and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. DJI and Sustainable Asset Management SAM , launched the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices in These indexes track performance of sustainability-driven companies around the world.

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There are currently 70 DJSI licensees held by asset managers in 16 countries to manage a variety of financial products, including active and passive funds, certificates and segregated accounts. DJI partnered with AIG to create the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index. It tracks trades on futures contracts for physical commodities, like energy petroleum, gas , precious metals gold, silver , industrial metals zinc, copper , grains corn, wheat , livestock lean hogs, live cattle , among others.

UBS Securities LLC has acquired AIG Financial Product Corp. As such, the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Indexes have been re-branded as the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes effective May 7, The Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes reflects the performance of leading dividend-yielding stocks. It includes global and regional indexes.

It was DJI's first fundamentals-driven index. DJI is one of the major data partners of RIMES , a cloud based financial markets data provider. Dow Jones Indexes also does "specialty" indexes for specific markets or interests.

It has the Dow Jones U. Companies can also request that specific indexes be created to suit their clients' interest or for publicity purposes.

This is popular with smaller asset management and public relations firms. DJI launches an average of one index or index family per week. It often creates an index for a specific event i. Dow Jones Summer Games Index, launched December , a specific market Dow Jones Luxury Index, launched June , or a very small market Dow Jones Cyprus Titans 10 Index.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average historical data along with several other major indexes recently became available on a new website, www. The company also has a widely read quarterly newsletter called Insights that covers the industry.

The current issue as well as back issues are available at http: Later that month, Dow Jones Indexes and BBVA jointly launched the Dow Jones BBVA EAGLEs Indexes series, which initially includes two market gauges each designed to measure the stock performance of 50 leading companies in emerging and growth-leading economies EAGLEs.

The first set of EAGLEs included China, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Egypt. The company produces a quarterly news magazine called Insights.

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