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Russell Asia Pacific Value Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   25.367
Median market cap                   0.603
Largest stock by market cap                   388.437
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.032
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.23
Dividend yield                   3.25
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   11.5
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   7.06%
EPS growth 5 years                   17.7

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Asia Pacific Value   -2.45   -12.24   -13.80   10.31   17.10

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Toyota Motor Corp.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
Mizuho Financial Group Inc.
Sony Corp.
POSCO
Westpac Banking Corp.
  Japan
Australia
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
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
COSMOS Pharmaceutical Corp.
  64.7
63.3
48.1
42.3
40.3
37.1
36.8
35.0
34.2
33.5
  Australia
India
India
India
China
Philippines
Vietnam
Vietnam
Australia
Japan

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
Australia
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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






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