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Mauritius And UAE Added To Dow Jones Wilshire Index,
by Phillip Morton, Investors Offshore.com
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mauritius, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be added to
the Dow Jones Wilshire Global IndexSM family, effective from the start of trading
on October 1, 2008, Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates have announced.
Additionally, the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Malta will be reclassified
to the Developed Markets subgroup from the Emerging Markets subgroup in the
Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family with the change effective on April 1,
2009.
“Including Mauritius, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE in the Dow Jones Wilshire
Global index family reflects the growing importance of these emerging markets
to the world’s investment community and ensures the Dow Jones Wilshire
Global Total Market Index provides institutional investors with the broadest
coverage of international equities,” said Michael A. Petronella, president,
Dow Jones Indexes.
“The decision to transfer the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of
Malta to the Developed Markets subgroup is consistent with our goal of providing
the most comprehensive measure of the equity markets for global economies from
which institutional investors can make their asset allocation decisions,”
he added.
“Moving the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Malta to the developed
market subgroup acknowledges the International Monetary Fund’s findings
that they have the infrastructure to deliver results in line with large, mature
developed markets,” noted Dennis A. Tito, chairman and chief executive
officer of Wilshire Associates Incorporated and the individual credited with
developing the then named Wilshire 5000 in 1974.
“Adding Mauritius, Qatar, Oman and the UAE to the Dow Jones Wilshire
Global Total Market index recognizes not only growing investor interest in,
but also their investment in these previously sparsely covered countries,"
he added.
The inclusion of the four new countries to the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index
family increases the total number of countries in the index from 61 to 65 on
October 1, 2008. All four new countries will be added to the Dow Jones Wilshire
Emerging Markets, Dow Jones Wilshire Global ex-US and Dow Jones Wilshire Middle
East & Africa indexes.
As of July 1, 2008, 23 companies from Mauritius, 25 companies from Qatar,
38 companies from Oman and 28 companies from the UAE were due to be added to
the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index and respective regional and
country indexes in October 2008. The final component count will be known on
October 1.
Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes are global benchmarks which serve as informational
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fiduciary responsibilities. As of the close of trading of June 30, 2008, the
Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index measures 12,782 stocks in 61 countries
with a float-adjusted market capitalization of USD34.7tn.
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