RUSSELL/NOMURA Market Cap Segment Indexes

Russell and Nomura Research Institute jointly maintain indexes representing different market capitalization segments of the investable equity market in Japan.

Currency: Japanese yen

RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index
Represents approximately 98% of the investable Japan equity market. All other RUSSELL/NOMURA indexes are subsets of this universe of stocks.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Prime™ Index
The Russell/Nomura Prime Index is made up of the 1,000 largest stocks in terms of float-adjusted market capitalization of the Russell/Nomura Total Market Index. It is designed to serve as a benchmark for passive investment strategies. It has broad market coverage, and takes liquidity into account.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Large Cap™ Index
Represents approximately 85% of the total market capitalization of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index. This index currently consists of the 350 largest securities in the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index and measures the performance of large companies. The Top Cap and Mid Cap Indexes are subsets of this index.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Microcap™ Index
Contains the bottom 5% of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index in terms of market adjusted capitalization.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Mid Cap™ Index
Represents the group of companies beginning at a cumulative market value of 50% of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index and ending at 85% of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index. The Mid Cap Index currently contains approximately 290 securities.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Mid-Small Cap™ Index
Represents approximately the bottom 50% of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index. It combines both the RUSSELL/NOMURA Midcap™ Index and RUSSELL/NOMURA Small Cap™ Index.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Small Cap™ Index
Represents approximately 15% of the total market capitalization of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index. This index measures the performance of small companies and currently consists of approximately 1,350 of the smallest securities in the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Small Cap Core™ Index
Comprises stocks in the small cap index, excluding the microcap index, and represents the top two thirds of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Small Cap Index.

RUSSELL/NOMURA Top Cap™ Index
Represents approximately 50% of the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index. The index currently consists of the 60 largest securities in the RUSSELL/NOMURA Total Market™ Index as ranked by total market capitalization.