MSCI GLOBAL VALUE AND GROWTH INDEX SERIES AUGUST 2005 QUARTERLY INDEXREVIEW
Geneva , August 16, 2005. MSCI Barra, a leading provider of benchmark indices and risk management
analytics products, announced today changes to the MSCI Global Value and Growth Index Series that will beeffective as of the close of August 31 , 2005. These changes result from the August 2005 Quarterly Index
Review of the MSCI Standard Index Series.
Effective as of the close of August 31 , 2005, Hudson City Bancorp (USA), C&C Group (Ireland), Shanghai
Electric Group H (China) and Petkim Petrokimya (Turkey) will be fully allocated to the MSCI Global GrowthIndex Series.
As a reminder, style reviews during Quarterly Index Reviews are only conducted for new additions to theMSCI Standard Index Series. All securities deleted from the MSCI Standard Index Series as a result of theQuarterly Index Review will also be deleted from the MSCI Global Value and Growth Index Series.
In addition, there will be changes for certain constituents resulting from the quarterly review of free float
estimates and quarterly updates in number of shares for the MSCI Standard Index Series, which will also be
effective as of the close of August 31, 2005.
The results of the August 2005 Quarterly Index Review for the MSCI Standard Index Series, the MSCI Small
Cap Index Series, the MSCI Pan-Euro and Euro Indices, the MSCI US Equity Indices, the MSCI US REIT
Index as well as the MSCI China A Index have also been posted on MSCI's web site at www.msci.com.
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or “MSCI Barra”).

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