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...Facebook, for example, was docked to a rating of 21 out of 100 last year by S&P Global, which worried about its privacy and transparency standards....
...Even so, Mr Pettit added: “I have a three-and-a-half-year-old and an 11-month-old so I will be sprinting back to the office the day I can.”...
...MSCI, which together with S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell and Bloomberg, dominates the indexing industry, last week included about 230 A-shares, or those listed in Shanghai or Shenzhen, in its Emerging...
...that “policymakers, not index providers, should set corporate governance standards,” according to a public letter from Barbara Novick, BlackRock’s vice-chairman, to MSCI’s president Baer Pettit....
...In the case of the world’s largest ETF, the $177bn SPDR, which tracks the S&P 500, S&P Dow Jones receives a licence fee of a little over 0.03 per cent of assets, currently equivalent to more than $50m a...
...The S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats index, base for a $13bn ETF, has made a total return of 98.4 per cent since June 2006....
...According to MSCI’s head of index business, Baer Pettit, prospects for a benchmark price war should not be overstated....
...asks Baer Pettit, chairman of the Index Industry Association, a body that represents providers. “I think the answer is yes.”...
...Alex Matturri, chief executive of S&P Dow Jones Indices, believes smart beta has “a place” in portfolios but he cautions that it cannot replace the role of cap- weighted indices as the primary benchmarks...
...“Clearly a lot of people follow our indices, and changes made in the composition are important for countries and companies,” notes Baer Pettit, managing director and head of the MSCI Index business....
...Mr Pettit said he anticipated broad participation in the new body as the IIA was already opening discussions with a number of other index providers that had expressed an interest in joining....
...A reminder, if any were needed, of the risks inherent in frontier markets. Over the same period, the S&P 500 fell 5.1 per cent and the FTSE 100 fell 9.7 per cent....
...Competitor Baer Pettit, managing director and head of the MSCI index business, says of the deal: “The S&P/Dow Jones combination will make them a stronger player in the US domestic market....
...The shares were suspended at 18½p on Monday, valuing the company at £33.17m....
...Last week Rok reopened what Stephen Pettit, chairman, described as a “regrettable chapter in Rok’s history” and revealed that the problems in PHE were not confined to accounting failures....
...It joined on December 23 at 28½p a share, giving a market capitalisation of £15.7m....
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