NEW YORK, April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- As investors grow increasingly concerned about inflationary issues across developed and emerging markets, S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today announced the launch of a new family of Global Inflation-Linked Sovereign Indices to effectively measure inflation-linked country debt within these classifications. The launch of the S&P Global Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Indices is part of S&P DJI's global initiative to expand its fixed income index offerings globally across more bond types.

The S&P Global Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Indices are broad, comprehensive, market value-weighted indices that seek to measure the performance of the inflation-linked securities market. The Indices are comprised of a universe of fixed rate, locally denominated inflation-linked sovereign debt publicly issued by governments in their domestic markets.

"Investors are increasingly casting an eye toward local currency bonds as a means of generating additional diversification properties within their portfolios," says Alex Matturri, CEO of S&P Dow Jones Indices. "The potential for inflationary pressures across the developed and emerging markets is real, and investors realize this. Today's launch of the S&P Global Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Indices allows investors to effectively gauge the relative risk and performance of the country debt being issued across developed and emerging markets in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. It also represents an important milestone for S&P Dow Jones Indices in its pursuit to publish a deeper lineup of indices across more bond types globally."

Index Family

• S&P Global Developed Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index tracks the performance of developed-market inflation-linked sovereign debt issued by Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, UK, US, and the Eurozone. Individual country indices are available.
• S&P Eurozone Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index is a subset of the S&P Global Developed Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index and tracks the performance of developed-market Eurozone inflation-linked sovereign debt issued by France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Individual country indices are available.
• S&P Global Emerging Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index tracks the performance of emerging-market inflation-linked sovereign debt. The structure of the S&P Global Emerging Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index currently consists of country debt issued by Brazil, India, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey. Individual country indices are available.

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