ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1996, The International Guide to Securities Market Indices provides a comprehensive overview of the securities market indices and offers assistance to professionals as well as individual investors in the selection of an appropriate securities market index, on a worldwide basis. The Guide’s identifies and catalogues available performance indicators along with their publishers and describes their relevant characteristics and a perspective on their historical price and total return performance. It also contains descriptive profiles along with historical performance data on 400 of the world’s leading global, regional and local securities market indices and sub-indices covering 10 asset classes.

chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|5 pages

Uses and Applications

chapter 3|4 pages

Reasons for Growth of Indices

chapter 4|11 pages

Index Construction and Maintenance

chapter 5|2 pages

Characteristics of Preferred Indices

chapter 6|5 pages

Historical Highlights

chapter 7|4 pages

Guide to Index Profiles

part 8|603 pages

Index Profiles—Stocks

chapter |220 pages

North America

chapter |109 pages

Asia/Pacific

chapter |7 pages

Asia/Pacific—Regional

chapter |129 pages

Europe

chapter |15 pages

Europe—Regional

chapter |35 pages

Central/Latin America

chapter |3 pages

Latin America — Regional

chapter |41 pages

Africa/Middle East

chapter |35 pages

World

chapter 9|45 pages

Index Profiles—Bonds North America

chapter |33 pages

World

chapter |5 pages

World

chapter 11|13 pages

Index Profiles—Commodities North America

chapter |7 pages

World

chapter 14|31 pages

Index Profiles—Mutual Funds North America

part 15|3 pages

Index Profiles—Closed-End Funds

chapter |2 pages

North America

chapter 16|9 pages

Index Profiles—Real Estate North America

chapter 17|2 pages

Index Profiles—Real Estate World