NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced that the iShares S&P 100 Index ETF (NYSE Arca: OEF) transferred to the NYSE Arca listing platform from the CBOE. As an industry leader in ETF and ETN listings and trading, exchange traded products listed on NYSE Arca represent 53% of ETF and ETN assets under management in the U.S., nearly $597 billion, the most of any exchange.
"We are delighted to have the iShares S&P 100 Index Fund transfer to NYSE Arca,” said Lisa M. Dallmer, SVP, Global Index and Exchange Traded Products, NYSE Euronext. “This ETF listing on NYSE Arca provides another opportunity for investors to broaden their portfolio to track the components of S&P 100.”
S&P is the index provider for the underlying index and Barclays Global Investors is the sponsor of this ETF. The fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P 100 Index (the “Index”). The Index measures the performance of the large capitalization sector of US equity market. It is a subset of the S&P 500 Index and consists of blue chip stocks from diverse industries in the S&P 500 Index.
