The Dow Jones Asian Titans 50 Index is what it sounds like: it’s full of 50 heavy hitters (blue-chip securities) in the Asia-Pacific region. It’s a capitalization-weighted index, which means the number of shares a company counts (not just the price alone). It also uses other weights and measures, like net income and current revenue of the companies involved.
The Dow Jones Asian Titans 50 Index is a sibling to other Dow Jones Titan Indexes, representing the Asia-Pacific. Japan takes up a large part of this index. While China’s economy is on the up-and-up, it’s still not weighted so heavily in this index, since this index isn’t representing reality so well anymore based on how it weights stocks. For instance, many investors may be looking at the S&P Asia 50 instead, which looks at blue-chip companies from Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and other Asian markets (but still not China…). Hmmf.
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