A man walks into a tailor, orders a custom-made suit and then says he’s bound by his own rules to only buy half of it. Sell the rest to someone else, he says.
That, essentially, is the conundrum facing S&P Dow Jones Indices, except that instead of a suit, it’s designing a stock gauge to the specifications of the Bank of Japan.
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