FTSE Group (“FTSE”), award-winning global index provider, and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (“SET”) announce that Siam City Bank Public Company Limited will replace Thai Tap Water Supply Public Company Limited in the FTSE SET Large Cap Index following the semi-annual review concluded by the FTSE SET Advisory Committee today.
The FTSE SET Large Cap Index is used as the basis of financial products including the ThaiDEX FTSE SET Large Cap ETF (TFTSE), derivatives and for benchmarking. The indices are reviewed semi-annually by the independent FTSE SET Index Advisory Committee in accordance with the index ground rules. The reviews ensure that the indices accurately reflect the market they represent. This is essential when the indices are used to benchmark investment portfolios and used as the basis of index-linked products.
Other indices in the FTSE SET Index Series were also reviewed, with a summary of changes as follows. Full details of additions and deletions can be found at http://www.ftse.com/Indices/FTSE_SET_Index_Series/Index_Reviews.jsp:
Indices |
Additions |
Deletions |
FTSE SET Large Cap Index |
1 |
1 |
FTSE SET Mid-Cap Index |
7 |
1 |
FTSE SET Small-Cap Index |
11 |
7 |
FTSE SET All-Share Index |
19 |
9 |
FTSE SET Fledgling Index |
42 |
6 |
FTSE SET Shariah Index |
4 |
1 |
All constituent changes take effect at start of business on 21 December 2009 and the next review will take place on 11 June 2010.
Further information on the FTSE SET Index Series including ground rules are available at http://www.ftse.com/thailand and www.set.or.th.