NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, LVA Indices (LVA), the leading fixed income index and pricing provider in Chile, and Proveedor Integral de Precios (PIP), a leading index and pricing provider in Latin America, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones LATixx Peru Government Nuevos Soles Bond and the Dow Jones LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Indexes. These indexes are designed to measure the performance of the Peruvian Government's local and global issues in Nuevos Soles and US Dollars.
The Dow Jones LATixx Indexes are designed to serve as basis for investment products such as exchange-traded funds, structured products, futures and options.
"These indexes provide investors with an opportunity to measure the bond market in the emerging nation of Peru," said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes. "This is the first index in the LATixx family of indexes which measures Peru, specifically. We expect to expand this family of indexes to cover all of the major Latin American markets," noted Petronella.
"These indexes will help to develop more sophisticated products in the local market as well as contribute to promoting the Peruvian market abroad, which in the last years has also been performing very well," said Manuel A. González, director of international division, Proveedor Integral de Precios.
"We believe these indexes will prove to be a significant contribution for local investment managers by providing them with an adequate benchmark to measure and analyze the performance of their portfolios," said Gregorio Gonzalez, CEO, LVA Indices.
The Dow Jones LATixx Peru Government Nuevos Soles Bond and the Dow Jones LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Indexes are market-cap weighted. Weights are rebalanced monthly. The Dow Jones LATixx Peru Government Nuevos Soles Bond Index is calculated in Nuevos Soles and the Dow Jones LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Index is calculated in U.S. dollars.
Back-tested historical data is available back to January 1, 2009, with the base date of December 31, 2008 and an initial value set to 1000.0.
As of September 30, 2010, the Dow Jones LATixx Peru Government Nuevos Soles Bond Index had a year-to-date performance of 3.49%.
As of September 30, 2010, the Dow Jones LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Index had a year-to-date performance of 16.62%.
For more information on the Dow Jones LATixx Indexes, please visit www.djindexes.com.
1The Dow Jones LATixx Peru Government Nuevos Soles Bond Index and the Dow Jones LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Index were first published on October 18, 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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