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Russell Developed Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   25.555
Median market cap                   0.705
Largest stock by market cap                   119.657
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.070
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.91
Dividend yield                   4.24
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   11.1
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   9.84%
EPS growth 5 years                   27.4

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD        1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Developed Pacific Basin ex-Japan   -5.25   -20.65   -10.50   13.94   19.65   16.75

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Westpac Banking Corp.
National Australia Bank Ltd.
Rio Tinto Ltd.
Woolworths Ltd.
Westfield Group Australia
Australia & New Zealand Banking Grp Ltd.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd.
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
  Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Hong Kong
Australia


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Wai Chun Mining Industry Group Co Ltd
Byford International Ltd.
Macquarie DDR Trust
Oakton Ltd.
Sunshine Gas Ltd.
Coffey International Ltd.
Cardno Ltd.
Pharmaxis Ltd.
Campbell Brothers Ltd.
Biosensors International Group Ltd.
  72.3
40.6
28.2
24.9
24.9
23.1
22.4
21.9
21.5
20.0
  Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Singapore

Country data

Top 4 countries
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
Materials
Industrials
Consumer Discretionary
Energy






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