Indices

GLOBAL - FTSE Group has added 33 companies and removed 15 firms from its FTSE4Good index following a semi-annual review.

FTSE Group has added 33 companies and removed 15 firms from its FTSE4Good index following a semi-annual review.

AUSTRALIA - FTSE Group and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have unveiled a series of indices providing industry standard tax-adjusted benchmarks for superannuation funds.

AUSTRALIA - The Australian Bureau of Statistics has unveiled the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI), providing a measure of price changes in living cost as they affect pensioners.

GERMANY - Deutsche Börse has released a new index family based on the government bond market, comprising six Eurogov indices.

EUROPE - The first hedge fund exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been launched into the market, by db x-trackers, the ETF arm of Deutsche Bank. The ETF is listed on Deutsche Börse's XTF segment.

US - S&P has released the first in a range of global low carbon indices, designed to meet increasing investor demand for environmentally focussed indices.

AUSTRALIA - Barclays Capital has launched an index in a bid to provide a solution for obtaining liquid inflation exposure in markets where access to inflation-linked instruments is illiquid or non-existent.

GLOBAL - No economic model or financial forecast will accurately predict what happens in the next six to 12 months - except by pure chance, European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) economic commentator Anatole Kalesky has claimed.

GLOBAL- FTSE has launched a dozen indices providing exposure to emerging markets real estate securities.