Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) offers institutional investors performance benchmarks for national stockmarkets, developed as well as emerging, and regional aggregations. The use of a consistent methodology for index construction allows you to accurately compare equity performance across regions, markets and sectors providing solutions for all your benchmark needs.

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Stated below are the major modules that we can offer through the MSCI Full Data Vendor agreement:

• Index Module
• Enhanced Index Module
• All Country Sectors
• Core Markets Module
• Small Cap Module

Index Module
This module provides Price and Total Return (Gross and Net) for Developed, Emerging and Asia Pacific. Data is available on Daily and Monthly basis.

Enhanced Index Module
This product enables you to analyse global Regional and Country index levels, returns, market capitalization and index valuation ratios for Developed, Emerging and Asia Pacific.

All Country Sectors
This module is divided into three components:
- Developed Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Asia-Pacific Markets

The All Country Sectors module allows clients to analyse index levels/returns, index market caps/weights, and index valuation ratios at the country/region level broken down by sector, industry group, and industry.

Core Markets Module
This product is divided into four components:
- Developed Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Asia-Pacific Markets
- Small Cap Markets

The product makes it possible for the client to analyse MSCI Indices at the most comprehensive level, the security level. This module makes it possible for clients to recreate MSCI Indices from the individual securities that comprise them using shares outstanding, security prices, fx rates and market cap factors.

For additional analysis, MSCI provides security valuation ratios, and balance sheet and income statement data:

Valuation Ratios Income Statement Items:
- Price/Book Value (P/BV) Sales
- Price/Cash Earnings (P/CE) Cash Earnings
- Price/Earnings (P/E) Earnings
- Return on Equity (ROE) Earnings Per Share
- Dividend Yield Dividends Per Share

Balance Sheet Items:
- Fixed Assets
- Investments
- Other Assets
- Current Assets
- Book Value
- Other Liabilities
- Long Term Debt
- Current Liabilities

Small Cap Module
The objective of the MSCI Small Cap Indices is to represent the business activities of small cap companies across developed markets. MSCI selects the most liquid securities relative to their market capitalization, and targets for index inclusion 40% of the full market capitalization of the eligible small cap universe within each industry group, within each country.