MSCI announces changes to equity indexes

By Rodrigo Campos

NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - MSCI said on Thursday it will add 42 securities and delete 56 from its widely followed ACWI equity index .MIWD00000PUS.

The three largest companies by market capitalization to be added to the developed markets index .WORLD are Rocket Lab RKLB.O, SoFi Technologies SOFI.O and Affirm Holdings AFRM.O, all headquartered in the United States.

The three largest companies to be added to the emerging markets index .MSCIEF are China Citic Bank 601998.SS, Dian Swastatika Sentosa DSSA.JK and Laopu Gold 6181.HK.

All changes will be made as of the close of August 26, MSCI said.

Nearly $17 trillion in assets were benchmarked to MSCI indexes at the end of 2024, according to its website. As of last June, there were $2 trillion in equity ETFs linked to its indexes.

As of July 31, the largest country weights in the emerging markets index were China with 29.2%, Taiwan with 19.5%, India with 16.9% and South Korea with 11%.