TCH (Hoang Huy Investment Financial Service JSC) was included in the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes, while DRC and ITA was "excluded"

TCH, a Vietnamese stock, was one of the 14 new shares added at the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes and in 30 stocks removed from the index, there are two Vietnamese stocks including DRC and ITA.

Remarkably, at the review of this month, MSCI also upgraded the MSCI Pakistan Indexes index from "Frontier Markets" to "Emerging Markets" .

All changes will take effect after the close of trading on Thursday (June 01, 2017).

MSCI Frontier Markets Index

The restructuring results of the second quarter of 2016 was released by MSCI in the morning of May 16 in Vietnam showed that this organization added 4 new shares to the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. There wasn’t any Vietnamese stock in this list.

These four stocks came from Argentina (1), Brahrain (1), Croatia (1), Mauritius (1). In the opposite direction, MSCI excluded 16 Pakistani stocks from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index.

It can be seen that after the second restructuring of 2017, the number of stocks in the MSCI Frontier Markets Index - reference index for the MSCI Frontier Markets Index ETF - dropped by 12 to 115, in which there were 11 stocks of Vietnam including VIC, MSN, VCB, HPG, STB, GAS, BVH, BID, VNM, ROS and SAB.

MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes

Also in this list restructuring, another index of emerging market of MSCI was the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index, which added 14 stocks, especially in which there is a Vietnamese stock that is TCH. The remaining 13 stocks are from Morocco (1), Bahrain (2), Kuwait (3), Owan (1), Ivory Coast (3), Estonia (1), Benin (1) and Burkina Faso (1).

At the same time, MSCI excluded 30 codes from the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes basket. Of which, there are two Vietnamese stocks, DRC and ITA. The remaining 28 stocks came from Argentina (1), Pakistan (22), Bahrain (1), Kuwait (1), Bangladesh (1), Lithuania (1), and Romania (1).

The announcement of the next restructuring of MSCI is on 10/08/2017 in accordance with CEST, equivalent to the morning of 11/08/2017 in Vietnam time.

In the previous list restructuring in February, 2017, the MSCI Frontier Markets Index added only two shares of Vietnam, ROS and SAB, and the MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes did not make any changes.

MSCI Vietnam Index

As of April 28, 2007, the MSCI Vietnam Index includes 13 stocks. Of which, top ten stocks were VNM, VIC, MSN, ROS, HPG, NVL, VCB, SAB, VJC and STB. 

The MSCI Vietnam Index is comprised of 13 component stocks and represents about 85% market capitalization built by MSCI to measure the performance of medium and large cap stocks on the Vietnamese stock market.

Source: Vietstock.vn