Asian Indices

2.  The Hang Seng Index is a freefloat-adjusted
market capitalization-weighted stock market
index in Hong Kong.
 It is used to record and monitor daily changes of
the largest companies of the Hong Kong stock
market and is the main indicator of the overall
market performance in Hong Kong.
 These 48 constituent companies represent
about 60% of capitalisation of the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange

3.  HSI was started on November 24, 1969, and
is currently compiled and maintained by
Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited, which
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hang Seng
Bank, one of the largest banks registered and
listed in Hong Kong in terms of market
capitalisation.

4.  It is responsible for compiling, publishing and
managing the Hang Seng Index and a range of
other stock indexes, such as Hang Seng China
Enterprises Index, Hang Seng China AH Index
Series, Hang Seng China H-Financials Index, Hang
Seng Composite Index Series, Hang Seng China A
IndustryTop Index, Hang Seng Corporate
Sustainability Index Series and Hang SengTotal
Return Index Series.
 Hang Seng in turn, despite being a public
company, is held in majority by British financial
firm HSBC.

5.  The Hang Seng Index was created by Hong
Kong banker Stanley Kwan and debuted on
November 24, 1969
 On January 2, 1985, four sub-indices were
established in order to make the index clearer
and to classify constituent stocks into four
distinct sectors.
 There are 50 HSI constituent stocks in total.

6.  Industry sectors:
 Energy (能源業)
 Material (源材料業)
 Industrial Goods (工業製品業)
 Consumer Goods (消費品製造業)
 Services (服務業)
 Telecommunications (電訊業)
 Utilities (公共事業)
 Financials (金融業)
 Properties & Construction (地產建築業)
 InformationTechnology (資訊科技業)
 Conglomerates (綜合企業