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MSCI GLOBAL VALUE AND GROWTH INDEX SERIES FEBRUARY 2007 QUARTERLYINDEX REVIEW
Geneva, February 13, 2007. 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 be effective as ofthe close of February 28, 2007. These changes result from the February 2007 Quarterly Index Review of the MSCIStandard Index Series.
Effective as of the close of February 28, 2007, Powerchip Semiconductor (Taiwan) and Fording Canadian Coal(Canada) will be fully allocated to the MSCI Global Value Index Series. Level 3 Communications (US), Lundin
Mining (Canada), Innolux Display (Taiwan), Shui On Land (Hong Kong), Douja Prom Groupe Addoha (Morocco),
Net Servicos de Comunicacao (Brazil) and Polyus Gold (Russia) will be fully allocated to the MSCI Global Growth
Index Series. Severstal (Russia) will be partially allocated to the MSCI Global Value and Growth Index Series with aValue Inclusion Factor of 0.65. Polyus Gold (Russia) will be deleted from the MSCI Global Growth Index Series.
This Russian security occurs on both the list of additions and deletions as MSCI is transferring the pricing source
for it from the Russian Trading Exchange (RTS) to the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX).
As a reminder, style reviews during Quarterly Index Reviews are only conducted for new additions to the MSCIStandard Index Series. All securities deleted from the MSCI Standard Index Series as a result of the Quarterly
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 estimatesand quarterly updates in number of shares for the MSCI Standard Index Series, which will also be effective as ofthe close of February 28, 2007.
The results of the February 2007 Quarterly Index Review for the MSCI Standard Index Series, the MSCI Small CapIndex Series, the MSCI Pan-Euro and Euro Index Series, the MSCI US Equity Indices, the MSCI US REIT Index,
the MSCI Japan KOKUNAI Indices, the MSCI China A Index Series and the MSCI China A Value and GrowthIndices have also been posted on MSCI Barra’s web site at www.mscibarra.com.

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