S&P Indices Reinforces Position in Structured Products Market with Index Innovation Award

NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, announced today that it has been named most innovative index provider of the year at the Structured Products Americas Awards 2010.

On announcing the award, Structured Products magazine said, "S&P Indices offered innovative solutions to investor problems and provided the underlying for the best-selling exchange-traded product (ETP) in the U.S. last year."

"We believe that simplicity and transparency will be important for the U.S. structured products markets to hit the $100 billion threshold," says Alexander Matturri, Executive Managing Director at S&P Indices. "Innovative index-linked products, especially those associated with well-known brands such as the S&P 500 and S&P GSCI, will be the key to hitting this mark. This is why S&P Indices is thrilled with the honor bestowed on us by Structured Products magazine for index innovation around our headline indices."

A few of the forward-thinking and responsive innovations launched by S&P Indices in 2009 and recognized by Structured Products magazine include:

• The S&P 500 VIX Futures Index Series, which was created to resolve the problem investors face in trying to replicate VIX
• The S&P 500 Gold Hedged Index, which seeks to simulate the returns of an investment strategy long the total return of the S&P 500 and long gold futures contracts
• The S&P 500 Dividend Index, which enables investors to hedge or take a view on dividends for U.S. stocks, independent of price movement
• The S&P Risk Control index framework, which allow for risk managed exposure to well known indices such as S&P 500 and S&P GSCI

"The fact that S&P Indices has been honored with this award multiple times across the Americas, Asia and Europe is a testament to our willingness to work with issuers in bringing to the market innovative index solutions," concludes Matturri.

For more information about S&P Indices, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.

About S&P Indices

S&P Indices, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, and the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index.  For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.

About Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com.

SOURCE Standard & Poor's

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