MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets APEX Index

MSCI Barra announced today that it has launched the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index, and a more tradable proxy for this benchmark - the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets APEX Index.

The MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index is designed to serve as a benchmark covering all countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index and the lower size spectrum of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

In addition to the countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index, the following countries from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index will be included in the new MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index: Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, and the Philippines.