Title: The First ETF Investing Exclusively in the Bonds of the Iconic S&P 500®
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Time: 03:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
The S&P 500 has been among the best-known and most widely used U.S. equity benchmarks for decades. In fact, over $7.8 trillion in equity investments are benchmarked to it. Now, investors who have used the S&P 500 to help build their stock portfolios can make the S&P 500 their principal index for bond investing too.
Join Jason Giordano of S&P Dow Jones Indices and Simeon Hyman from ProShares as they discuss current trends and market forces, and why it appears bond investors are shifting more toward bond ETFs.
- Learn what prompted S&P Dow Jones Indices to develop a bond index based on the S&P 500
- Hear what makes S&P 500 companies and their bonds distinctive
- See why ProShares believes that this index is best delivered with the cost efficiency, tradability and transparency of an ETF
No longer accepted for one hour of CFP/CIMA CE credit for live and on-demand attendees
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Director, Fixed Income Product Management
S&P Dow Jones Indices
Head of Investment Strategy
ProShares
Editor and Publisher
ETF Trends