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MSCI Global Investable Market IndicesFebruary 2008 Quarterly Index Review
Geneva - February 13, 2008 - MSCI Barra (NYSE:MXB), a leading provider of investment decision support tools
worldwide, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics, announced today changes to the MSCI
Global Investable Market Indices - including the MSCI Provisional Global Standard and MSCI Provisional Global
Small Cap Indices as well as the MSCI Large Cap, MSCI Mid Cap, and MSCI Investable Market Indices – that will
be made as of the close of February 29, 2008. These changes result from the February 2008 Quarterly Index
Review and will include the changes to the MSCI Frontier Markets Indices (including the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) countries) for the first time. The full list of additions to and deletions from the MSCI Provisional Global
Standard Indices, as well as the full list of additions to and deletions from the MSCI Provisional Global Small Cap
Indices have been posted on MSCI Barra’s web site at http://www.mscibarra.com.
Twenty-one securities will be added to and nine securities will be deleted from the MSCI Provisional Global
Standard Indices. The additions are due to the inclusion of new investable companies of significant size and to themigration of companies from the MSCI Provisional Global Small Cap Indices. Deletions are the result of migrations
to the MSCI Provisional Global Small Cap Indices. The largest additions to the MSCI Provisional World Index are,Criteria CaixaCorp Ordinary (Spain), Annaly Capital Management (US) and Enagas (Spain). The largest additionsin the MSCI Provisional Emerging Market Index are Ecopetrol (Colombia), Gazprom Neft (Rub) (Russia) and Steel
Authority of India (India).
Nine securities will be added to and 25 securities will be deleted from the MSCI Provisional Global Small Cap
Indices. Overall, there will be 9 additions to and 13 deletions from the MSCI Global Investable Market Indices.
As a reminder, the MSCI Global Standard and MSCI Global Small Cap Indices will transition to the Global
Investable Market Indices methodology in two phases. The first phase was implemented as of the close ofNovember 30, 2007, coinciding with the November 2007 Semi-Annual Index Review, while the second phase will
be implemented as of the close of May 30, 2008. The enhanced Standard Indices will exhaustively cover the largeand mid-cap segments of the investable equity universe, while the enhanced Small Cap Indices will exhaustively
cover the small-cap segment of the investable equity universe. The Provisional Indices assist investors inunderstanding the changes that would occur if the transition to the Global Investable Market Indices Methodology
would occur immediately. They also provide increased flexibility to current investors who wish to transition on theirown schedule.
The results of the February 2008 Quarterly Index Review for the MSCI Global Standard Indices, the MSCI Global
Small Cap Indices, the MSCI Global Value and Growth Indices, the MSCI High Dividend Yield Indices, the MSCI
Pan-Euro and MSCI Euro Indices, the MSCI Asia APEX 50 Index, the MSCI KOKUNAI Japan Equity Indices, theMSCI Global Islamic Indices, the MSCI US Equity Indices, the MSCI US REIT Index as well as the MSCI China AIndex have also been posted on MSCI Barra’s web site at www.mscibarra.com.
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