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Head of Private Markets Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Ari Rajendra is Head of Private Markets Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). He leads the development and commercialization of benchmarks that bring transparency and structure to private markets, including private equity, private credit and related asset classes.
Since joining S&P DJI in 2020, Ari has held several product leadership roles, most recently as Head of Thematic Indices, where he was responsible for developing and expanding the firm’s suite of innovative and sustainable thematic strategies.
Prior to S&P DJI, Ari spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank in London as the European lead for Delta 1 Strategy, overseeing index and custom product design, marketing and client solutions. Earlier in his career, he led European Equity Index Research at J.P. Morgan and held roles at UBS and a proprietary trading firm.
Ari holds a master’s degree in electrical and information engineering from the University of Cambridge.
In April 2021, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index underwent changes to reduce constituent concentration, ease liquidity limitations, and improve index replication. The total number of constituents rose, and the weighting scheme was modified. As a provider of choice, S&P DJI also launched a focused index, the S&P Global Clean Energy Select Index, which consists…
Following a public consultation that concluded in March this year, S&P DJI announced the new composition of the S&P Global Clean Energy Index, which currently comprises 30 leading clean energy-related stocks, on April 2, 2021. The index is set to broaden when changes take effect on April 19, 2021. Clean energy is an area that…
The U.K. has been one of the worst-hit countries in developed markets in terms of dividend cuts in 2020. One in two dividend-paying companies in the S&P United Kingdom BMI have cut dividends, while half of the remaining companies are also expected to cut dividends.1 A tough year indeed for equity income managers, as opportunity…
During the months of March to May this year, dividend concerns came to the fore as many companies, globally, announced cuts, cancellations, and postponements to their respective dividend programs. We examined the impact of these public announcements on the S&P DJI Dividend Indices, and our assessment then revealed that the extent to which indices were…
Dividend-paying companies have been in the spotlight as a direct consequence of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and crude oil glut crisis. A combination of strained corporate cash flows and political intervention has seen many companies cancel, cut or postpone payments globally. In this blog, we examine the potential impact of these events on the S&P…
