NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Ardour Global Alternative Energy Index(SM) (TICKER: AGIGL) will add fourteen new components, effective 6:00 PM (EST) Sunday, December 20, 2009. No stocks will be deleted from the index, changing the number of index components to 125. The changes result from the quarterly rebalancing of the index.
Additions to AGIGL are: Capstone Turbine Corp. (TICKER: CPST US); Centrosolar AG (TICKER: C3O GR); Conergy AG (TICKER: CGY GR); Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies (TICKER: QTWW US); Rentech Inc. (TICKER: RTK US); A123 Systems (TICKER: AONE US); Magma Energy Corp. (TICKER: MXY CN); STR Holdings (TICKER: STRI US); Duoyuan Global Water Inc. (TICKER: DGW US); Infigen Energy (TICKER: IFN AU); Ram Power Corp. (TICKER: RPG CN); Cropenergies (TICKER: CE2 GR); Lime Energy Co. (TICKER: LIME US); Veeco Instruments Inc. (TICKER: VECO US).
A complete list of constituents and weights will be posted on the AGI family of alternative energy indexes web site, (http://ardour.snetglobalindexes.com/about_the_indexes.php).
The Ardour Global Alternative Energy Index(SM) is a capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index of the most prominent alternative energy stocks in the world. To be included in the AGIGL index,
companies must be pure-play and the stocks must pass multiple screens, including for capitalization, float, exchange listing, share price and turnover.
The Ardour Global Index(SM) (Extra Liquid) (TICKER: AGIXL), which contains a fixed number of 30 stocks, had two additions against two deletions. VEECO Instruments Inc. (TICKER: VECO US) and SMA Solar Technology (TICKER: S92 GR) will replace JA Solar Holdings (TICKER: JASO US) and LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (TICKER: LDK US).
Detailed information, including constituent data, rules and price information, on the AGI family of alternative energy indexes is available at www.ardourglobalindexes.com. Data is also available through most vendors of financial data.
Walter Nasdeo Ardour Capital Investments, LLC 212-375-2958 Joseph LaCorte Ardour Global Indexes, LLC 646-467-7927 www.ardourglobalindexes.com
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