Standard & Poor's, a leading provider of independent investment research, indices, and ratings, announced today results of its 2003 U.S. Indexed Assets Survey for several of its major indices including the S&P 500, S&P SmallCap 600, S&P MidCap 400 and its new benchmark series, the S&P/Citigroup Global Equity Indices. The over $1.2 trillion directly indexed to S&P indices represents a total growth of 36% from last year's surveyed assets, exceeding general market performance which was 28.7% as measured by the S&P 500 total return index. Full results of the survey are available on
www.indices.standardandpoors.com .
