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S&P launches inverse index for S&P500

Jonathan Stapleton

09 January 2008 •

STANDARD & POOR'S has launched a S&P 500 inverse index to give investors a way to measure the performance of a short position in the stock-market barometer.

The index provider said this was the first of a series of leveraged and inverse indices it plans to launch. S&P said that when investors hold a short position in a security they must pay dividends...

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