Erste Group Launches Rising Markets Indices

Businessn.a. ♦ Published: May 3, 2011; 21:20 ♦ (Vindobona)

Erste Group launches Rising Markets Indices for bonds and equities focusing on high-opportunity countries. Country selection based on criteria such as GDP growth, population growth, anti-corruption measures and standard of living.

Erste Group Launches Rising Markets Indices / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Erste Group Bank AG (‘Erste Group’) has taken a completely new approach to country selection with the “Rising Markets Indices”: the indices consider economic indicators and population growth as well as minimum criteria regarding anti-corruption measures and living standards. The result is an index with a mix of 25 countries at most that have an above average growth potential in…