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Portfolio Data as of April 30, 2008

Top 10 Holdings

Security Sector Country % of Net Assets
Funai Zaisan Consultants Co., Ltd. Financials Japan 2.9%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. Health Care India 2.8%
Unicharm Petcare Corp. Consumer Staples Japan 2.5%
China Mobile, Ltd. Telecom Services China/Hong Kong 2.5%
Nintendo Co., Ltd. Information Technology Japan 2.4%
Benesse Corp. Consumer Discretionary Japan 2.3%
HDFC Bank, Ltd. Financials India 1.9%
Ichiyoshi Securities Co., Ltd. Financials Japan 1.9%
The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Financials Japan 1.9%
Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. Financials Japan 1.9%
23.0%
Top 10 holdings may combine more than one security from the same issuer.

Sector Allocation (%)a

Fund  MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index^ Difference 
Financials 34.1 27.2 6.9
Information Technology 19.1 13.0 6.1
Consumer Discretionary 17.2 11.6 5.6
Consumer Staples 8.8 5.1 3.7
Health Care 7.6 3.0 4.6
Industrials 5.7 14.9 –9.1
Telecom Services 4.9 5.3 –0.5
Materials 2.0 11.5 –9.5
Energy 0.0 5.0 –5.0
Utilities 0.0 3.4 –3.4
Cash, Cash Equivalents
and Other
0.7 0.0 0.7
Sector data based on MSCI’s revised Global Industry Classification Standards. For more details, visit www.msci.com.
Source: FactSet Research Systems.

Country Allocation (%)a

Fund MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index^ Difference
Japan 42.8 45.8 –3.0
China/Hong Kong 21.1 13.9 7.2
India 9.1 4.3 4.8
South Korea 8.5 8.2 0.4
Thailand 4.6 0.9 3.8
Singapore 4.0 2.5 1.4
Taiwan 3.5 6.8 –3.3
Australia 3.4 14.7 –11.3
Indonesia 2.1 0.9 1.3
Malaysia 0.0 1.4 –1.4
New Zealand 0.0 0.3 –0.3
Pakistan 0.0 0.1 –0.1
Philippines 0.0 0.2 –0.2
Cash, Cash Equivalents
and Other
0.7 0.0 0.7
Source: FactSet Research Systems.
 

Market Cap Exposure (%)a,b

Fund MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index^ Difference
Large cap (over $5 billion) 58.9 83.4 –24.5
Mid cap ($1 - $5 billion) 23.5 16.2 7.3
Small cap (under $1 billion) 16.9 0.4 16.5
Cash, Cash Equivalents
and Other
0.7 0.0 0.7
       
Source: FactSet Research Systems.

Portfolio Characteristicsc

Number of securities 74
Weighted average market cap $25.5 bil
P/E using FY1 Estimates 17.1x
P/E using FY2 Estimates 15.0x
Source: FactSet Research Systems.


^ The MSCI All Country Asia Pacific Index is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index of the stock markets of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.


a Percentage values in data are rounded to the nearest tenth of one percent; the values may not sum to 100% due to marginal rounding errors.
b Equity market cap of issuer.
c The P/E figures represent the Harmonic Average P/E- which measures the price/earnings ratio of the Fund's entire portfolio, excluding negative earners- weighted by the size of the company's position within the portfolio.



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