MSCI TO CHANGE ANGLO AMERICAN COUNTRY CLASSIFICATION FROMSOUTH AFRICA TO THE UNITED KINGDOM AT NOVEMBER 2004 QUARTERLYINDEX REVIEWGeneva, May 11, 2004. MSCI announced today that the country classification for Anglo American will bechanged from South Africa to the United Kingdom at the November 2004 Quarterly Index Review. Anglo
American will be included in the MSCI United Kingdom Index and simultaneously deleted from the MSCISouth Africa Index as of the close of November 30, 2004. Given the size of Anglo American in the MSCIEmerging Markets (EM) Index, this advance announcement is aimed at giving investors sufficient time toprepare for the implementation of the change.
MSCI’s decision to re-classify Anglo American in its country of incorporation, the United Kingdom, is basedon the gradual but significant change over time in Anglo American’s geographical profile. The future
inclusion of Anglo American in the MSCI United Kingdom Index follows an assessment of therepresentation in the United Kingdom Materials industry group, taking into account Anglo American as partof the MSCI United Kingdom universe.
MSCI generally classifies companies in the country in which they are incorporated. However, as per MSCI’smethodology, in the event that a company already classified by MSCI in a country subsequently reincorporates abroad, it will generally remain within the country in which it was initially classified. Thecompany may be re-classified into its new country of incorporation if, in addition to the change, thecompany’s geographical profile has been or will be fundamentally modified. Anglo American moved its
incorporation from South Africa to the United Kingdom and its primary listing from Johannesburg toLondon in 1999. Since this change did not coincide with a geographical change in the activities of thecompany, MSCI decided to maintain Anglo American’s country classification in South Africa at that time.
MSCI has been reviewing Anglo American’s country classification regularly using a set of considerations, themost important of which are the company’s main equity trading markets and its shareholder base, thegeographical distribution of its operations (in terms of assets and production), and the country in whichinvestors consider the company to be most appropriately classified. On the basis of these considerations, therelative importance of South Africa for Anglo American has gradually but significantly decreased.
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