Five Dow Jones Indexes Licensed to BMO Financial Group in Connection With Canadian ETFs


NEW YORK, May 26, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, announced the launch of five new indexes: the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil, the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas, the Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT, the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market, and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market indexes. These five new indexes have been licensed to BMO Financial Group, a Canadian financial services company, to underlie exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The BMO ETFs are available today on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

"This is the first time Canadian investors will be able to monitor certain highly sought-after sectors with indexes that are created in a way that is unique to the Canadian market place," said Michael A. Petronella, president designate, Dow Jones Indexes. "By licensing the indexes, BMO expands on its existing range of small-cap products. The large-cap indexes will provide investors with windows on sectors in which each company contributes equally to the performance of the index."

The Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil and the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas indexes measure the performance of U.S. and Canadian companies in the oil and gas producers and the oil-equipment, services and distribution sectors. The Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT Index provides an equal-weighted measure of Canadian companies in the real estate investment trusts sector. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index provides an equal weighted measure of U.S. large-cap stocks in the health care industry, while the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index provides an equal-weighted measure of U.S. large-cap banks.

As of May 21, 2010, annualized performance since December 31, 1998, for the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil Index is 12.44%; the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas Index is 19.60%; the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index is 5.18%; and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index is -3.37%. The Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT Index is up 5.80% since its base date of June 30, 20051.

The Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas Index as well as the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil Index are weighted by float-adjusted market capitalization and reviewed on an annual basis in December. The Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT Index is equal-weighted and reviewed semi-annually in June and December. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index are both equal-weighted and reviewed semi-annually in March and September.

1The Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT Index, Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas Index, Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil Index, Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index, and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market Index were first published on April 16, 2010. All estimated daily historical closing prices prior to that date are based on back-testing (i.e., calculations of how the index might have performed in the past if it had existed). Back-tested performance information is purely hypothetical and is solely for informational purposes. Back-tested performance does not represent actual performance, and past performance is not indicative of future results.

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Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of CME Group Index Services LLC, a joint venture company which is owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. (www.cmegroup.com) and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com), a News Corporation company (Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV) (www.newscorp.com).

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