Dow Jones offers South Asian Federation indexes

Index provider Dow Jones Indexes and the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (Safe) have launched the Dow Jones Safe 100 Index and the Dow Jones Safe Pakistan Index, which measure the performance of blue-chip companies in five of the eight member states of Safe. The indexes are designed to underlie index-linked investment products such as funds, ETFs, structured products, futures and options.

The Dow Jones Safe 100 Index tracks the performance of the 50 largest Indian stocks and the 50 largest stocks trading in Bangladesh, Mauritius, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The index comprises three Bangladeshi, five Mauritian, 39 Pakistani and three Sri Lankan stocks. The index is denominated in US dollars and is weighted by float-adjusted market capitalisation. The weighting of each country in the index is capped at 50% while each component is capped at 10%.

The Safe Pakistan Index charts the