MSCI adds five Vietnamese stocks to its indexMSCI, a global leading provider of research-based indexes and analytics, has eyes for Vietnamese shares when it added five local shares to its MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index. MSCI decided to add 18 shares in the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index, five of which are Vietnamese shares. — Photo frontiermarketnews.orgIn its semi-annual review released on May 15 (local time), MSCI decided to add 18 shares in the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index, five of which are Vietnamese shares. They are Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment JSC (CII), Ho Chi Minh Securities Corp (HCM), The Pan Group (PAN), Van Phu - Invest Investment JSC (VPI) and Vietnam Electrical Equipment JSC (GEX). After this review, the MSCI Frontier Markets Index – the underlying index of the MSCI Frontier Markets Index ETF – will increase to 115, 11 of which are Vietnamese shares, accounting for 14.69 per cent of total weights.

Source: VietNamNet News May 17, 2018 04:30 UTC