CESC Launches CES CRIC Leading Mainland Property Developer Index And Enhances Dissemination Frequency Of CES China Semiconductor Index To Real-time

China Exchanges Services Company Limited (CESC) today (Monday) launched the CES CRIC Leading Mainland Property Developer Index (CRIC Leading Mainland Property Developer), which is designed to track the overall performance of the Hong Kong-listed Mainland property developers. CESC today has also enhanced the dissemination frequency of CES China Semiconductor Index (CES China Semiconductor) to real-time basis.

CRIC Leading Mainland Property Developer is a price return index. It consists of the 40 largest Hong Kong-listed Mainland property stocks included in the list of CRIC’s top 100 Mainland property developers by sales. It is a parameter to measure the market performance of Mainland Chinese property stocks listed in the Hong Kong market.

CES China Semiconductor tracks the market performance of the top 50 semiconductor stocks listed in Mainland China, with business scope ranging from semiconductor materials, equipment, design, manufacture, assembly, packaging and testing. The index has been licensed to a market participant as an underlying for index-linked financial products.

“CESC is enhancing the dissemination frequency of a current index and is launching a new index to provide more diversified investment options for the market. We will continue to work closely with our business partners to develop more innovative indices and products,” said CESC Chief Executive Mao Zhirong.

Please refer to Appendix 1 to 4 for more information about CESC’s index.