Invesco PowerShares Readies New ETF Family
Standard & Poor’s says it has licensed the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Sector Indices to Invesco PowerShares to serve as the underlying for a soon to be launched family of exchanged traded funds (“ETFs”) based upon the Indices.
The S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Sector Indices impose capped weights on the index constituents of the S&P SmallCap 600 Sector Indices. All stocks included in the series are classified according to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), and maintain the same classification as found in the parent S&P SmallCap 600 Index, according to S&P.
While GICS is divided into 10 sectors, the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Sector Indices combine the Utilities and Telecommunication Services into one sector. Below is a list of the nine indices licensed to Invesco PowerShares:
- S&P Small Cap Capped Consumer Discretionary Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Consumer Staples Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Energy Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Financials Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Health Care Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Industrials Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Materials Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Information Technology Index
- S&P Small Cap Capped Utilities & Telecommunication Services Index
More information on the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Sector Indices is available at http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices.