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Top Ten Countries in the MSCI EAFE Index
The Morgan Stanley Capital International ("MSCI") Europe, Australasia, and Far East Index ("EAFE") is a benchmark used to measure non-U.S. developed country stock market performance. The bar chart above shows the gross performance in U.S. dollars of the top 10 countries by weighting in the index as of March 31, 2009, with Japan having the highest weighting listed first and Hong Kong having the tenth-highest weighting listed last. Also included is the gross return of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, an index that measures the equity stock market performance of 25 emerging market countries, which are not included in the EAFE Index.
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