By Jack Pitcher

Howard Silverblatt is retiring after 48 years at S&P Global.

Silverblatt "is perhaps best known as a sort of high priest, historian and keeper of that ubiquitous market benchmark, the S&P 500 stock index," The Wall Street Journal wrote in a 2011 profile.

In widely-followed client notes, Silverblatt meticulously tracked and analyzed data on earnings, dividends, buybacks and performance of the world's most widely followed stock benchmark.

Silverblatt, who started at S&P in May 1977, will leave at the end of January, he wrote to clients.

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