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Written by Heather Bell

Monday, 28 April 2008 13:37

Ronnee Ades has left her position as senior director of institutional markets at Dow Jones Indexes and joined FTSE Group as the head of its "Alternatives" business unit.

Currently, the index provider's REIT, commercial property, hedge fund, private banking and infrastructure indexes fall into this bailiwick. Ades will be responsible for growing those areas and also for identifying new areas in alternative assets and investment that present opportunities for FTSE.

She will be based in FTSE's New York office and report to Paul Hansford, FTSE's director of product management.

While with Dow Jones Indexes, Ades was also the executive director of the Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes Technical Advisory Committee. She is currently on the corporate advisory board for the Pennsylvania Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems (PAPERS).

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Ronnee Ades Senior Director, Institutional Markets Dow Jones Indexes Ronnee Ades is senior director of Institutional Markets at Dow Jones Indexes. In this role, Ms. Ades spearheads the benchmark initiative that includes business development efforts for the Dow Jones Wilshire Global family of indexes and the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, the first indexes designed to track the performance of lifecycle and target retirement funds. Ms. Ades is responsible for building the benchmarking business anchored in the U.S. by the well-known and widely used Dow Jones Wilshire 5000. Under her leadership, the index family has expanded globally to provide institutional investors with comprehensive, rules-based benchmarks necessary for better risk management. Ms. Ades works directly with trustees emphasizing the importance of benchmark education in understanding and aiding them with the assessment of portfolio risk and return. Ms. Ades serves as executive director of the Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes Technical Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Corporate Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems (PAPERS). Prior to joining Dow Jones Indexes in 2001, Ms. Ades was senior business manager, International Specialty Products Division, at Church & Dwight, where she began working in 1988. Ms. Ades holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and an M.B.A. in finance from Temple University, Philadelphia. Ms. Ades resides in Marlboro, N.J., with her husband and three children. Press Contact: For interview with Ronnee Ades, please contact Dow Jones Indexes/STOXX Ltd. Press office: New York: +1-212-597-5720 Frankfurt: +49-69-2972 5290 Or e-mail to PR-Indexes@dowjones.com

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