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Construction and Methodology Russell U.S. Equity Indexes v5.2 ftserussell.com An LSEG Business June 2021 Construction and Methodology Contents 1.0 Introduction .......................................................................... 5 1.2 FTSE Russell ............................................................................................ 5 1.3 Available indexes ..................................................................................... 6 2.0 Management Responsibilities ............................................ 8 2.1 FTSE International Limited (FTSE) ........................................................ 8 2.2 Amendments to the Construction and Methodology ........................... 8 3.1 Queries, Complaints and Appeals ......................................................... 9 3.2 Index Policy for Trading Halts and Market Closures ........................... 9 3.3 Index Policy in the Event Clients are Unable to Trade a Market ......... 9 3.4 Recalculation Policy and Guidelines ................................................... 10 3.5 Policy for Benchmark Methodology Changes .................................... 10 4.0 Basic Methodology ............................................................ 11 4.2 Annual reconstitution............................................................................ 11 4.3 Quarterly initial public offerings .......................................................... 11 5.0 Defining Eligible Securities ............................................... 13 5.2 Determining U.S. Companies ............................................................... 13 5.3 Home-country indicators (HCIs) .......................................................... 13 5.4 Share Descriptions ................................................................................ 14 5.5 Steps to determining U.S. country assignment: ................................ 14 5.6 Trading requirements ............................................................................ 15 5.7 Exchange and Segment requirements ................................................ 15 5.8 Minimum closing price .......................................................................... 15 5.9 Minimum total market capitalization .................................................... 15 5.10 Minimum available shares / float requirement ................................... 15 5.11 Company structure ................................................................................ 15 5.12 UBTI screening ...................................................................................... 16 FTSE Russell An LSEG Business | Russell U.S. Equity Indexes Construction and Methodology, v5.2, June 2021 2 5.13 Shares excluded .................................................................................... 16 5.14 Deadline for inclusion ........................................................................... 16 5.15 Minimum Voting Rights ........................................................................ 16 6.0 Defining Membership by Size ........................................... 18 6.2 Determining total shares outstanding ................................................. 18 6.3 Determining price .................................................................................. 18 6.4 Corporate actions impacting reconstitution ranking ......................... 19 6.5 Reconstitution ........................................................................................ 19 6.6 Corporate Actions ................................................................................. 19 6.7 IPOs ......................................................................................................... 20 6.8 Initial public offerings (IPOs) ................................................................ 20 6.9 Russell U.S. Indexes IPO calendar: ..................................................... 21 6.10 Determining index membership ........................................................... 21 6.11 Steps in calculating percentile ranges of the new index: ................. 22 7.0 Float .................................................................................... 24 8.0 Determining Style .............................................................. 25 8.2 Russell Growth and Value Indexes ...................................................... 25 8.3 Russell Defensive and Dynamic Indexes ............................................ 26 8.4 Quality Score (comprises 50% of the overall stability probability) .. 27 8.5 Volatility Score (comprises 50% of the overall stability probability) 27 8.6 Description of non-linear probability algorithm ................................. 28 8.7 5% rule .................................................................................................... 28 8.8 Banding rule ........................................................................................... 28 8.9 Market capitalization of growth/value and defensive/dynamic indexes 29 8.10 Missing values, negative values, or low coverage ............................. 29 9.0 Timing and Treatment of Corporate Actions ................... 31 9.2 “No replacement” rule .......................................................................... 32 9.3 Changes to shares outstanding and free float ................................... 32 FTSE Russell An LSEG Business | Russell U.S. Equity Indexes Construction and Methodology, v5.2, June 2021 3 10.0 Russell Equal Weight Indexes .......................................... 34 10.2 Available indexes ................................................................................... 34 10.3 Quarterly index re-weighting and annual reconstitution................... 35 10.4 Corporate action–driven changes ....................................................... 35 Appendix A: Index Tickers and Base Values ............................ 37 Appendix B: Country Assignment Methodology Details ......... 40 Appendix C: Sample Client Notification .................................... 44 Appendix D: Predictive Index Data ............................................ 46 Appendix F: Performance Algorithms ....................................... 47 FTSE Russell An LSEG Business | Russell U.S. Equity Indexes Construction and Methodology, v5.2, June 2021 4 Section 1 Introduction 1.0 Introduction 1.1.1 FTSE Russell provides float-adjusted, market capitalization–weighted indexes for a precise picture of the market. Today, $9.1 trillion in assets are benchmarked to the Russell US indexes.1 1.2 The Russell US Equity Indexes do not take account of ESG factors in the index design. 1.3 FTSE Russell 1.3.1 FTSE Russell is a trading name of FTSE International Limited, Frank Russell Company, FTSE Global Debt Capital Markets Limited (and its subsidiaries FTSE Global Debt Capital Markets Inc. and MTSNext Limited), Mergent, Inc., FTSE Fixed Income LLC, The Yield Book Inc and Beyond Ratings. 1.3.2 FTSE Russell hereby notifies users of the index series that it is possible that circumstances, including external events beyond the control of FTSE Russell, may necessitate changes to, or the cessation of, the index series and therefore, any financial contracts or other financial instruments that reference the index series or investment funds which use the index series to measure their performance should be able to withstand, or otherwise address the possibility of changes to, or cessation of, the index. 1.3.3 Index users who choose to follow this index series or to buy products that claim to follow this index series should assess the merits of the index’s rules-based methodology and take independent investment advice before investing their own or client funds. No liability whether as a result of negligence or otherwise is accepted by FTSE Russell for any losses, damages, claims and expenses suffered by any person as a result of: • any reliance on this Methodology, and/or • any errors or inaccuracies in this Methodology, and/or • any non-application or misapplication of the policies or procedures described in this Methodology, and/or • any errors or inaccuracies in the compilation of the index or any constituent data. 1 Data as of December 31, 2019 as reported on April 1, 2020 by eVestment for institutional assets, Morningstar for retail mutual funds, insurance products, and ETFs, and additional passive assets directly collected by FTSE Russell.. FTSE Russell An LSEG Business | Russell U.S. Equity Indexes Construction and Methodology, v5.2, June 2021 5 1.4 Available indexes • Capital and total return indexes. • Net total return indexes based on specified withholding tax rates. • Indexes calculated in currencies other than the base currency (USD). • Currency hedged indexes. • Capped indexes; for full details see the FTSE Russell Capping Methodology guide. • Constituent size bands – large, mid, small and micro capitalisation indexes. • Sector indexes. Additional customised variants can be calculated on request including indexes with industry, country and sector exclusions. Selected indexes are calculated and disseminated on a real time basis 1.4.1 All Russell U.S. equity indexes are subsets of the Russell 3000E Index. A list of available tickers and index values can be found in Appendix A. 1.4.2 Price, total, net, and hedged data for the Russell U.S. indexes is available in the following currencies. Exchange rates used in the End of Day calculations are WM/Reuters Closing Spot Rates™, collected at 16:00 London time (further information on The WM/Reuters Closing