MSCI Rebalance: Taiwan's Weight Rises Across Three Indices, Effective After August 31 Close – 6 Stocks Including Winbond and Nanya PCB Added

MSCI announced its latest quarterly index rebalance today (August 13), with Taiwan's weighting increased across all three major indices. In the MSCI Taiwan Index, six new stocks were added: Nanya Technology (2408-TW), Winbond (2344-TW), Phison (8299-TW), Nanya PCB (8046-TW), Tera U (6274-TW), and Kinsus (3189-TW). The updated weightings will take effect after the market close on August 31.

Taiwan's weighting in the MSCI Global Markets Index rose from 3.08% to 3.13%, an increase of 0.05 percentage points. In the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, Taiwan's weight increased from 26.60% to 26.85%, a 0.25-point rise. In the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index, the weighting climbed from 29.75% to 30.03%, up by 0.28 points.

Regarding the MSCI Taiwan Index constituents, six stocks were added—Nanya Technology, Winbond, Phison, Tera U, Nanya PCB, and Kinsus—and six were removed: IGT, Taiwan Cement, E-fon, Taiwan Business Bank, Kang Pei, and Yang Ming. The total number of constituents remains at 77, with 22 stocks seeing adjustments to their free-float shares. Nanya Technology saw the largest weight increase, newly assigned a 0.49% weighting. Conversely, TSMC experienced the largest weight reduction, decreasing by 0.79 percentage points to 56.61%.

In this MSCI quarterly review, when observing the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, Taiwan recorded the largest weight increase at +0.25 percentage points. India saw the largest decrease, down by 0.14 points. Other countries saw minimal changes.