KBW Announces Index Rebalancing for Third-Quarter 2017

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., a full‐service, boutique investment bank and broker‐dealer that specializes in the financial services sector, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. SF, announces the upcoming index rebalancing for the third quarter of 2017.

The rebalance will be effective prior to the opening of business on Monday, September 18, 2017.

As part of this rebalancing, there is one component-level change:

KBW Nasdaq Capital Markets Index KSX

Add: Virtu Financial, Inc. VIRT

Several of the KBW Nasdaq indices have tradable exchange‐traded funds licensed: KBW Nasdaq Bank Index (Index Ticker: BKX^SM, ETF Ticker: KBWB^SM); KBW Nasdaq Capital Markets Index (Index Ticker: KSX^SM); KBW Nasdaq Insurance Index KIX; KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index (Index Ticker: KRX^SM, ETF Tickers: KBWR^SM); KBW Nasdaq Financial Sector Dividend Yield Index KDXKBWD; KBW Nasdaq Premium Yield Equity REIT Index (Index Ticker: KYX^SM, ETF Ticker: KBWY^SM); KBW Nasdaq Property and Casualty Insurance Index KPXKBWP; KBW Nasdaq Global Bank Index GBKX; KBW Nasdaq Financial Technology Index (Index Ticker: KFTX^SM, ETF Ticker: FTEK.LN^SM).

About KBW

KBW (Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., operating in the U.S., and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, also trading as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe, operating in Europe) is a Stifel company. Over the years, KBW has established itself as a leading independent authority in the banking, insurance, brokerage, asset management, mortgage banking and specialty finance sectors. Founded in 1962, the firm maintains industry‐leading positions in the areas of research, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions as well as sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

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