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MSCI EQUITY INDICES AUGUST 2010 INDEX REVIEW
Geneva – August 17, 2010 - MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools
worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced
today changes to the MSCI Equity Indices – including the MSCI Global Standard and MSCI Global Small Cap Indicesas well as the MSCI Global Value and Growth Indices, the MSCI Frontier Markets Indices, the MSCI Global Islamicand MSCI Global Islamic Small Cap Indices, the MSCI High Dividend Yield Indices, the MSCI Pan-Euro and MSCIEuro Indices, the MSCI US Equity Indices, the MSCI US REIT Index, the MSCI Asia APEX 50 Index as well as theMSCI China A Indices – that will be made as of the close of August 31, 2010. These changes result from the August2010 Quarterly Index Review and have been posted on MSCI’s web site at http://www.msci.com.
MSCI Global Standard Indices: Five securities will be added1 to and no securities will be deleted from the MSCIGlobal Standard Indices. The three largest additions to the MSCI World Index are Hexagon B in Sweden, IntertekGroup in Great Britain, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. in Japan. The addition to the MSCI Emerging Market Index
is KWG Property Holding in China.
MSCI Global Small Cap Indices: There will be no additions and seventeen deletions1 from the MSCI Global Small
Cap Indices.
MSCI Global Value and Growth Indices: As part of the Quarterly Index Reviews, securities added to or deleted
from the MSCI Global Standard Indices are added to or deleted from the MSCI Global Value and Growth Indices.
For the MSCI Global Growth Indices, the largest additions will be Intertek Group (GB), Hexagon B (Sweden) andHamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Japan). There will be no additions to the MSCI Global Value Indices.
MSCI Frontier Markets Indices: There will be no additions to or deletions from the MSCI Frontier Markets Indices.
MSCI Global Islamic Indices: Thirty-two securities will be added to and 46 will be deleted from the MSCI ACWI
Islamic Index. The three largest additions to the MSCI ACWI Islamic Index are Experian (GB), Dr Pepper Snapple
Group (US), and Randgold Resources (GB). There will also be three additions to and no deletions from the MSCI
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries Domestic Islamic Index.
MSCI US Equity Indices: There will be no additions to and two deletions from the MSCI US Large Cap 300 Index.
Four securities will be added to and two securities will be deleted from the MSCI US Mid Cap 450 Index. The threelargest additions to the MSCI US Mid Cap 450 Index are Electronic Arts, Leucadia National Corporation andValeant Pharmaceuticals.
Two securities will be added to and two securities will be deleted from the MSCI US Small Cap 1750 Index. The twoadditions to the MSCI US Small Cap 1750 Index are SunPower Corporation A and SunPower Corporation B.
There will be no additions to or deletions from the MSCI US Micro Cap Index.

1As the index review cutoff date was July 21, 2010, Sybase is included as a migration from the MSCI Global Small Cap Indices to the MSCI
Global Standard Indices. On July 27, 2010, Sybase was deleted from the MSCI Global Small Cap Indices due to its acquisition by SAP, aspart of the standard corporate event process.

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For the MSCI US Investable Market Value Index, there will be two additions or upward changes in Value Inclusion
Factors (VIFs), and one deletion or downward changes in VIFs. For the MSCI US Investable Market Growth Index,
there will be one addition or upward changes in Growth Inclusion Factors (GIFs), and two deletions or downwardchanges in GIFs.
MSCI US REIT Index: There will be no additions to and no deletions from the MSCI US REIT Index.
MSCI China A Indices: There will be 10 additions to and no deletions from the MSCI China A Index. The threelargest additions to the MSCI China A Index are Inner Mongolia Yili A, China Eastern Airlines A, and Jiangsu
Yanghe Brewer A.
There will be no additions to and 10 deletions from the MSCI China A Small Cap Index.
The results of the August 2010 Quarterly Index Review of the MSCI High Dividend Yield Indices, the MSCI Pan-Euroand MSCI Euro Indices, the MSCI Global Islamic Small Cap Indices as well as the MSCI Asia APEX 50 Index havealso been posted on MSCI’s web site at www.msci.com.

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