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Russell Asia ex-Japan Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)*                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   40.621
Median market cap                   0.761
Largest stock by market cap                   269.446
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.111
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.77
Dividend yield                   2.35
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   14.7
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   20.99%
EPS growth 5 years                   28.8

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Asia ex-Japan Growth   -0.27   -27.45   -15.28   17.06   20.26

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
China Mobile Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd.
Reliance Industries Ltd.
China Construction Bank Corp.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (China) H
CNOOC Ltd.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.
  China
Korea
Taiwan
India
China
China
Taiwan
China
China
Singapore

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
BF Utilities Ltd.
Reliance Natural Resources Ltd.
Sterling International Enterprises Ltd.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Reliance Capital Ltd.
Jai Corp. Ltd.
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Siemens India Ltd.
BGR Energy Systems Ltd.
Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.
  63.3
53.3
50.4
48.1
45.7
44.1
43.8
43.3
42.3
41.1
  India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India

Country data

Top 5 countries
China
India
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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






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