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Russell Emerging Asia Index
Fact Sheet

Monthly Data
As of April 30, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average Market Cap ($-WTD)                   40.896
Median Market Cap                   0.881
Largest Stock by Market Cap                   450.138
Smallest Stock by Market Cap                   0.033
Fundamental Characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.55
Dividend Yield                   2.00
P/E Ex-Neg Earnings                   15.9
Lt Growth Forecast-IBES                   18.42%
EPS Growth 5 years                   26.5

Total Returns in Percentages

     April       YTD      1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Emerging Asia   7.85   -8.63   24.17   30.38   32.60   11.32

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Membership Data

Top 10 Holdings   Country
China Mobile Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Reliance Industries Ltd.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
POSCO
PetroChina Co. Ltd.
China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (China)
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
China Construction Bank Corp.
  China
Korea
India
China
Taiwan
Korea
China
China
Taiwan
China


Top 10 Performers   Return   Country
Namkwang Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd.
BF Utilities Ltd.
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.
Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Hua Han Bio-Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd.
China Infrastructure Machinery Holdings Ltd.
Kingsoft Corp. Ltd.
E-Ton Solar Tech. Co. Ltd.
G Steel PCL
Weichai Power Co. Ltd.
  92.2
79.0
73.2
65.1
55.1
53.6
53.1
51.7
51.5
51.2
  Korea
India
India
India
China
China
China
Taiwan
Thailand
China

Country Data

Top 5 Countries
China
Korea
Taiwan
India
Malaysia

Sectors — Largest Five by Weight

Russell Method       GICS Method
Financial Services
Materials and Processing
Technology
Utilities
Producer Durables
      Financials
Information Technology
Industrials
Energy
Materials






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