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Russell Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   31.531
Median market cap                   0.664
Largest stock by market cap                   337.719
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.033
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.92
Dividend yield                   3.40
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   11.8
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   13.89%
EPS growth 5 years                   26.8

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Asia Pacific
ex-Japan
  -5.94   -25.79   -15.89   14.99   18.78   14.89

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
China Mobile Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd.
Westpac Banking Corp.
Reliance Industries Ltd.
National Australia Bank Ltd.
China Construction Bank Corp.
Rio Tinto Ltd.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
  China
Korea
Australia
Taiwan
Australia
India
Australia
China
Australia
Australia


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Corp For Financing&Promoting Technology
Wai Chun Mining Industry Group Co Ltd
Saigon Securities Inc.
Rei Agro Ltd.
LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (ADS)
Byford International Ltd.
Core Projects & Technologies Ltd.
Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd.
China Sunergy Co. Ltd. ADS
Alliance Global Group Inc.
  83.2
72.3
65.8
53.8
43.4
40.6
36.9
35.6
34.6
33.5
  Vietnam
Hong Kong
Vietnam
India
China
Hong Kong
India
India
China
Philippines

Country data

Top 5 countries
Australia
China
Korea
Taiwan
India

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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






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