Frontier Markets Join FTSE’s Global Equity Index Series

Building on the success of its internationally acclaimed approach to equity indexing, FTSE Group (“FTSE”) has extended its Global Equity Index Series (“GEIS”) to include coverage of the Frontier markets, alongside its existing Developed and Emerging market indices. The FTSE Frontier 50, a new index which begins calculating today, is FTSE’s first index to be created from an eligible universe of 23 new frontier markets. Further regional and country indices for frontier markets will be launched in phases throughout the remainder of 2008 and into 2009.