{"id":1668,"date":"2008-01-08T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2008-01-08T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:25:20","slug":"sptsx-preferred-share-index-changes-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P\/TSX Preferred Share Index Changes Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=1522\">noted in November<\/a>, split shares will shortly be disappearing from the S&#038;P\/TSX Preferred Share Index &#8211; a change I whole-heartedly endorse, because it will make the index easier to beat.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-annual review has now been completed and a full list of changes is <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.standardandpoors.com\/spf\/pdf\/index\/010808_Canada.pdf\">available from S&#038;P<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers will remember that this index is the benchmark for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=935\">Claymore Preferred Share ETF<\/a>. Contact any doctrinaire index investors you know, and ask them why they&#8217;re dumping their splits!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 2008-3-19<\/b>: The previous semi-annual review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=964\">was previously reported on PrefBlog<\/a>.<!--f1f103940d218bd44769d52868dcf485--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in November, split shares will shortly be disappearing from the S&#038;P\/TSX Preferred Share Index &#8211; a change I whole-heartedly endorse, because it will make the index easier to beat. The semi-annual review &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}