Global index provider FTSE Group (FTSE) today announced that Malaysia has been promoted to Advanced
Emerging market status from the current Secondary Emerging market status in the FTSE Global Equity
Index Series. The promotion to the Advanced Emerging status demonstrates that Malaysia has met
FTSE's “Quality of Markets Assessment” criteria in that category. Malaysia will be moved from the
FTSE Secondary Emerging Market Indices into the FTSE Advanced Emerging Market Indices, and all
parent and sub-indices of these benchmarks, from June 2011.
Dato’ Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, Chief Executive Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad said, “We are
very pleased with the promotion of Malaysia into the Advanced Emerging category by FTSE as it marks
another milestone to the development of our market. This is testament to the efforts taken to build
an efficient and quality market and we are now ready to take on a new level of challenge in this
upgraded classification of our capital market.
“This recognition belongs to the whole nation as we have witnessed untiring effort and
support given by the Government, the regulators, market participants and investors who are keen to
build a market of international quality,” he added.
Malaysia joined the FTSE Watch List for possible inclusion in the Advanced Emerging market
status a year ago when FTSE announced the results of its Country Classification Annual Review in
September 2009. Malaysia is hopeful that the reclassification of the Malaysian capital market
will see improvement of the weightage of Malaysia in international indices as well as increasing
foreign investment inflow.
Please refer to FTSE Country Classification updates on FTSE’s website at
www.ftse.com/country .
FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:
Malaysia Progresses Into FTSE's Advanced Emerging Status In FTSE Global Equity Index Series
Date 23/09/2010