Kelsey Stokes
Head of Financial Institutions Sales, Americas, S&P Dow Jones Indices
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Head of Financial Institutions Sales, Americas, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Kelsey Stokes is Head of Financial Institutions Sales, Americas at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). In this role, Kelsey oversees sales and strategy for investment banks in the Americas and for insurance globally.
Previously, Kelsey held roles in both sales and marketing at S&P DJI, where she worked closely with insurance carriers to identify new multi-asset indices best suited to their needs and support their education and distribution efforts. Before joining S&P DJI, she led equity and alternative index derivatives marketing globally for CME Group.
Kelsey graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
S&P Dow Jones Indices recently published its fifth annual analysis of exchange-traded fund (ETF) usage by U.S. insurers in their general accounts. Regulatory filing data, which details the individual securities that insurers hold, showed that in 2019, ETF AUM in insurance general accounts grew to USD 31 billion—a 16% increase over 2018. While this headline…
In February 2020, S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) and the Association of Mexican Insurance Companies (AMIS) conducted the second annual survey of insurance investment officers in Mexico about the state of the local insurance industry. While this survey was meant to help take the pulse of the Mexican insurance market, what we did not…
Of the more than USD 3.4 trillion invested in ETFs in the U.S.,[1] retail investors comprise the majority of the market. While pensions and endowments have been slow to use ETFs in their investment portfolios, one segment of the institutional market—insurance—has been steadily increasing their usage of ETFs. Earlier this year, S&P DJI analyzed the…