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Russell Global ex-U.S. Large Cap Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   50.797
Median market cap                   5.297
Largest stock by market cap                   238.588
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.382
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.87
Dividend yield                   2.38
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   14.3
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   13.98%
EPS growth 5 years                   29.4

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global ex-U.S. Large Cap Growth   -4.98   -18.14   -10.97   12.11   15.95

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Rio Tinto PLC
Siemens AG
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (CL B)
Anglo American PLC
BHP Billiton PLC
Nestle S.A.
Roche Holding AG
BHP Billiton Ltd.
Telefonica S.A.
  United Kingdom
Germany
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Switzerland
Australia
Spain

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (ADS)
Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (ADS)
Lonmin PLC
Mechel AOA (ADS)
Genmab A/S
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
Netease.com Inc. (ADS)
Sino-Forest Corp.
Innolux Display Corp.
  43.4
38.0
32.9
32.1
30.8
20.7
20.6
19.4
18.7
18.6
  China
Japan
China
United Kingdom
Russia
Denmark
Germany
China
Canada
Taiwan

Country data

Top 5 countries
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Switzerland
Brazil

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Materials and Processing
Financial Services
Energy
Producer Durables
Consumer Discretionary
      Materials
Financials
Industrials
Energy
Consumer Staples






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