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Facts and characteristics

Facts
As of January 31, 2010

Bloomberg ticker symbol                   RDXU
Weighted average market cap ($B)                   42.113
Median market cap ($B)                   0.849
Largest stock by market cap                   187.917

Characteristics
As of January 31, 2010

Price/Book                   1.54
Dividend yield                   3.12
Price/Earnings (ex-negative earnings)                   16.9
IBES long-term growth forecast (%)                   8.25%
EPS 5-year growth                   11.5

* View market capitalization ranges as of latest reconstitution

The smallest company in each index has been removed from the public website to avoid any confusion. The smallest company could distort the actual distribution in the corresponding index due to corporate action methodology. Refer to the posted market cap ranges to view the actual breakpoints from the previous reconstitution or use the $wtd average market capitalization for a true measure of the capitalization distribution.


Membership

Top 10 holdings
As of January 31, 2010

Holding   Country
HSBC Holdings PLC   United Kingdom
BP PLC   United Kingdom
Nestle SA   Switzerland
Total SA   France
Novartis AG   Switzerland
Roche Holding AG-Reg   Switzerland
BHP Billiton Ltd   Australia
Banco Santander SA   Spain
Vodafone Group PLC   United Kingdom
GlaxoSmithKline PLC   United Kingdom

Top 10 performers
As of January 31, 2010

Holding   Return %   Country
RealDolmen   74.4   Belgium
Index Holdings   73.5   Japan
Reyal Urbis SA   61.1   Spain
SEIWA CHUO HOLDINGS CORP   56.3   Japan
Wai Chun Mining Industry Group Co Ltd   51.4   Hong Kong
Jerusalem Economy Ltd   47.2   Israel
Orient Overseas International Ltd   46.6   Hong Kong
ERG Renew SpA   43.2   Italy
Tobishima Corp   42.6   Japan
Melco Holdings Inc   40.0   Japan

Top five countries
As of January 31, 2010

United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
France
Switzerland


Sectors

Top five by weight
As of January 31, 2010

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


Performance

Total returns (in percentages, based on $US)
As of January 31, 2010


Jan   YTD   1 Yr   3 Yr   5 Yr   10 Yr
-4.24   -4.24   44.59   -6.31   4.16   2.75

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