STANDARD ANNOUNCEMENTS - January 07, 2021 at 09:13 PM GMT 
Announcement for January 07, 2021 at 09:13 PM GMT

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

ADDITIONAL LIST OF SECURITIES TO BE DELETED FROM THE MSCI CHINA ALL SHARES INDEXES FOLLOWING U.S. EXECUTIVE ORDER 13959

As a follow up to MSCI's communication on December 30, 2020, MSCI will also delete the securities referenced below from the MSCI China All Shares Indexes and from relevant non-market capitalization weighted indexes and custom indexes as of the close of business of January 8, 2021. These securities will be deleted using the relevant closing market price of the securities on that day.

The list of securities has been updated to reflect certain clarifications published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on January 6, 2021 that may impact the investability of MSCI indexes by certain investors. The three securities that will be deleted represent 0.81% of the MSCI China All Shares IMI (based on data as of January 6, 2021).

List of securities:
Security Name - (MSCI Security Code/RIC Code)

*   CHINA MOBILE - (22535.01/0941.HK)
*   CHINA TELECOM CORP H - (27867.01/0728.HK)
*   CHINA UNICOM - (23733.01/0762.HK)

The changes will be reflected in the MSCI Advance Corporate Events (ACE) files starting January 8, 2021.

Any further updates or modifications to the above referenced list of securities, made through a communication released by the OFAC will be considered and evaluated. MSCI would issue a separate announcement detailing the treatment related to these updates.

As a reminder, upon request by clients subscribing to impacted standard and custom indexes, MSCI will make available MSCI J-Series indexes that will retain the securities deleted from the MSCI Global Investable Markets Indexes (GIMI). More information on the treatment of these investment sanctions in the MSCI GIMI, and is available at: https://www.msci.com/index-methodology. MSCI has also updated the list of impacted standard indexes, available on: https://www.msci.com/index-consultations, to reflect the latest changes.

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

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