Qatar Within FTSE Global Equity Index Series

 

March 02, 2017

 

As per announcement made by FTSE on March 1, 2017, “Treatment of Qatar within FTSE Global Equity Index Series”, 20 of the 22 companies selected in September 2016 will see their investibility weights doubled. 

 

Al Meera Consumer Goods Company 

Barwa Real Estate 

Commercial Bank of Qatar 

Doha Bank 

Ezdan Holding Group 

Gulf International Services

Industries Qatar 

Masraf Al Rayan 

Medicare Group 

Ooredoo 

Qatar Electricity & Water Co 

Qatar Gas Transport 

Qatar Insurance 

Qatar International Islamic Bank 

Qatar Islamic Bank  

Qatar National Bank 

Qatar Navigation  

Salam International Investment Ltd

United Development Company

Vodafone Qatar

 

2 of the 22 ( Aamal and Qatari Investors Group) will remain with the same investibility weights:

Aamal 

Qatari Investors Group  

 

The changes to the FTSE Secondary Emerging Market index will be:  March 20th 2017 (from the open). Please find the Press release published by FTSE Russell in the link here after: click

 

This is the second tranche of the FTSE Qatar EM upgrade as announced in 2016 (All other notices related to the promotion of Qatar to Secondary Emerging Market index may be found by entering ‘Qatar’ in the Search notices box of the following link   click here