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Russell Developed Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   54.151
Median market cap                   1.006
Largest stock by market cap                   424.968
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.026
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   3.34
Dividend yield                   1.80
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   16.1
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   14.16%
EPS growth 5 years                   25.5

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Developed Growth   -3.24   -11.38   -6.98   7.98   10.99

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Microsoft Corp.
International Business Machines Corp.
Nestle S.A.
Apple Inc.
Roche Holding AG
Cisco Systems Inc.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
Schlumberger Ltd.
Google Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
  United States
United States
Switzerland
United States
Switzerland
United States
Australia
United States
United States
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Speedel Holding AG
GeoGlobal Resources Inc.
AMR Corp.
Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Co.
Midway Games Inc.
Medivation Inc.
Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Detica Group PLC
Array BioPharma Inc.
Rohm & Haas Co.
  92.2
88.3
76.4
72.1
70.5
69.1
69.0
68.6
66.2
61.5
  Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United Kingdom
United States
United States

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Switzerland

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Technology
Consumer Discretionary
Materials and Processing
Health Care
Producer Durables
      Information Technology
Industrials
Health Care
Consumer Staples
Energy






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