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Russell Asia Pacific Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of September 30, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   25.658
Median market cap                   0.513
Largest stock by market cap                   325.321
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.003
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.41
Dividend yield                   3.15
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   11.4
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   10.43%
EPS growth 5 years                   23.2

Total returns in percentages

     September        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Asia Pacific   -14.57   -32.00   -33.28   0.38   8.79   7.97

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Toyota Motor Corp.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
China Mobile Ltd.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Canon Inc.
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
  Japan
Australia
Japan
Korea
China
Australia
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd.
Toyo Denki Seizo K.K.
Cals Ltd.
BYD Co. Ltd.
Kumho Industrial Co. Ltd.
Eugene Investment & Securities Co. Ltd.
Linc Energy Ltd.
Daiwabo Information System Co. Ltd.
Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
San Miguel Corp.
  130.7
53.3
47.4
43.2
37.2
32.0
31.1
29.7
29.4
25.8
  China
Japan
India
China
Korea
Korea
Australia
Japan
Korea
Philippines

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
Australia
China
Korea
Taiwan

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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