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Russell Developed Pacific Basin Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   26.979
Median market cap                   0.637
Largest stock by market cap                   148.633
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.026
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.60
Dividend yield                   2.63
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   13.3
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   9.89%
EPS growth 5 years                   24.6

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Developed Pacific Basin   -3.97   -11.32   -12.42   8.59   14.28   7.79

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Toyota Motor Corp.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
Canon Inc.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.
Mizuho Financial Group Inc.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
  Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Australia
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Australia


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd.
Macquarie Airports
COSMOS Pharmaceutical Corp.
Nippon Soda Co. Ltd.
Great Southern Ltd.
Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Group
Geo Corp.
Daiei Inc.
J-Oil Mills Inc.
Datacraft Asia Ltd.
  64.7
34.2
33.5
31.6
31.4
29.7
28.0
27.1
25.8
25.5
  Australia
Australia
Japan
Japan
Australia
Australia
Japan
Japan
Japan
Singapore

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
Australia
Hong Kong
Singapore
New Zealand

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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






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