International Guide to Securities Market Indices

This work profiles 300 of the world's major domestic and international indices.

These indices track the performance of stocks, bonds, money market instruments, mutual funds, guaranteed investment contracts, convertible securities, commodities, currencies, real estate investment trusts, and real estate as well as managed funds.

The coverage for each index profile includes: a price or return performance chart; a performance record for the previous ten years; a synopsis describing the index and its composition; background; computation methodology; futures/options and where they are traded; comments expanding the understanding of the index and its calculation methodology; and the name of the index publisher.