Zagada & Waagstein - Index Results - Fact Sheet
The ZagadaWaagstein Global Outsourcing 100 Index (ZagadaWaagstein GO 100) is a tradable market index designed to include the best performing large, medium and growth companies engaged in service outsourcing. Service globalization or global outsourcing both within and across countries and borders is estimated at US$1.5 trillion in value. The index is the first global capital market instrument designed to benchmark performance in the sector for licensing and use by asset managers and investors.
The index is designed to capture the best market performers in the sector. Selections include companies from the three dominant geographic regions at the heart of service globalization: the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the Europe-Africa. The Index includes seven sub-indices, made up of stocks screened for optimal liquidity, performance and capitalization.
It has been purposefully designed so that additional markets and geographies may be added over time. Its equal weighted 1% design facilitates adding or subtracting listings based on strict operating rules.
The Index is suitable for licensing and use in the design of structured products, portfolio construction, derivative trading, Mutual Funds, and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The base currency for the Zagada Markets and Waagstein Research ZAWAGO 100 is the US Dollar.
Zagada Markets Inc, a U.S entity and Waagstein Research AB, a Swedish entity have jointly contracted with Standard & Poor’s to maintain and calculate the Index. S&P shall have no liability for any errors or omissions in calculating the Index. Standard & Poor’s is a trademark of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
The ZagadaWaagstein Index Committee consistently and continually evaluates and monitors constituents on the Index to ensure they maintain the capitalization, liquidity and governance standards and rules established by the index committee. Companies may be removed from the Index each quarter at rebalancing to ensure each holding represents 1% of the total index value.
