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Russell Global Small Cap Value Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of September 30, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   0.947
Median market cap                   0.409
Largest stock by market cap                   5.398
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.003
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.02
Dividend yield                   3.37
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   10.6
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   9.21%
EPS growth 5 years                   15.3

Total returns in percentages

     September        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global Small Cap Value   -12.45   -23.29   -27.36   1.78   11.92

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Ralcorp Holdings Inc.
Senior Housing Properties Trust
Realty Income Corp.
Apollo Investment Corp.
Westar Energy Inc.
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.
Piedmont Natural Gas Co.
Acom Co. Ltd.
Emera Inc.
ComfortDelGro Corp. Ltd.
  United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
Japan
Canada
Singapore

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd.
Gehl Co.
Sciele Pharma Inc.
Stewart Information Services Corp.
Helphire Group PLC
BancTrust Financial Group Inc.
Standard Pacific Corp.
Toyo Denki Seizo K.K.
Green Bankshares Inc.
Sterling Financial Corp. (Washington)
  130.7
95.3
59.8
59.0
58.2
57.6
53.4
53.3
53.3
43.3
  China
United States
United States
United States
United Kingdom
United States
United States
Japan
United States
United States

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Canada
Taiwan

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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