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Russell Asia Pacific ex-Japan Value Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   22.653
Median market cap                   0.649
Largest stock by market cap                   388.437
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.060
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.28
Dividend yield                   4.72
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   9.1
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   6.59%
EPS growth 5 years                   21.5

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Asia Pacific ex-Japan Value   -2.74   -17.25   -14.47   14.56   21.22

For daily total return details for all Russell indexes, view this page.

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
POSCO
Westpac Banking Corp.
National Australia Bank Ltd.
Westfield Group Australia
Australia & New Zealand Banking Grp Ltd.
PetroChina Co. Ltd.
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.
Kookmin Bank
Wesfarmers Ltd.
  Australia
Korea
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
China
Hong Kong
Korea
Australia

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd.
BF Utilities Ltd.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
BGR Energy Systems Ltd.
VisionChina Media Inc. (ADS)
First Philippine Holdings Corp.
Corp For Financing&Promoting Technology
PetroVietnam Fertilizer & Chemicals Corp
Macquarie Airports
Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals
  64.7
63.3
48.1
42.3
40.3
37.1
36.8
35.0
34.2
33.3
  Australia
India
India
India
China
Philippines
Vietnam
Vietnam
Australia
India

Country data

Top 5 countries
Australia
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Materials and Processing
Producer Durables
Utilities
Energy
      Financials
Industrials
Materials
Information Technology
Consumer Discretionary






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