Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index Licensed To ETFlab To Underlie Exchange-Traded Fund

STOXX Limited, the leading provider of European equity indexes, today announced that the Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index has been licensed to ETFlab Investment GmbH to serve as the basis for an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETFlab DJ STOXX 50 will be available on Deutsche Boerse today.

The Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index represents the largest 50 supersector leaders in 18 European countries. The index covers Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

"The Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index methodology is rules-based and transparent, offering market participants an established and superior tool to measure the performance of the leading 50 European blue-chip companies," said Ricardo Manrique, chief executive officer, STOXX Ltd. "The index complements the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50 Index, which represents 50 blue-chip companies in the euro zone, and is already part of ETFlab's product lineup."

The Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index was launched on February 26, 1998. Daily historical data are available back to December 31, 1986. The index is available in price and total return versions, and calculated in euro and U.S. dollar. It is reviewed annually in September. The index is weighted by float-adjusted market capitalization, and each component's weight is capped at 10% of the index's total free-float market capitalization.

Further information on the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes is available at www.stoxx.com.