Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters CRI India 50 ESG Index, the latest addition to the Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices. Based on proprietary environmental, social and governance (ESG) data, the index will serve as a credible reference for global investors seeking exposure to Indian companies and investment portfolios with ESG standards. The index is UCITS compliant and can be licensed as the basis of an exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Thomson Reuters have teamed up to launch a suite of fixed income indices tracking the performance of Singapore dollar (SGD)-denominated government and corporate bonds. The Thomson Reuters/SGX Singapore Fixed Income Index suite covers over 80% of the SGD plain vanilla bullet bond market and is divided into various sub-indices along issuer, credit rating and maturity buckets. The suite’s fair value, evaluated pricing methodology makes the indices ideal for the creation of exchange-traded funds which seek to provide specific investment access to Singapore debt.

S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced the launch of S&P GIVI Shariah Indices, the first Shariah-compliant indices combining low volatility and an alternative weighting scheme that weight’s a stock by its calculated intrinsic value, rather than by market capitalisation. The S&P GIVI is constructed from the S&P Global BMI universe, a comprehensive, rules-based global index covering some 10,000 companies in 46 countries.

Thomson Reuters Indices has teamed up with real estate specialists Global Property Research (GPR) and industry group Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) to launch a suite of indices designed specifically to be the most comprehensive listed real estate benchmarks available for the Asia Pacific region.

The yield on Canadian 10-year government bonds has remained stubbornly below 2% for much of the past year. It’s no surprise that investors are looking for alternative sources of yield. One such source is Canadian provincial bonds, which offer an attractive risk-adjusted yield premium. Listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and benchmarked to the DEX Universe Provincial Bond Index, the newly launched First Asset DEX Provincial Bond Index ETF (PXF) has been designed precisely to enable investors to access this premium.

Sabrient Systems, an independent equity research firm, and Thomson Reuters, a leading financial information provider, have collaborated to create two alpha-generating, low-volatility equity indices. The indices, the Thomson Reuters/Sabrient Sensible Growth Low Volatility Index, a long/short index, and the Thomson Reuters/Sabrient Sensible Growth Index, a long index, have been designed with ETFs in mind.