Developed jointly by the Goldman Sachs Israel Technology Research and the Goldman Sachs Equity Derivatives Research teams, GS-IST is a modified capitalization-weighted index of 35 Israel Technology stocks. Index shares are fixed to reflect a maximum cap weight of 8.5% at each rebalancing date. During the first year, the index is rebalanced quarterly after the close of the third Friday in October 2000, January 2001, April 2001 and July 2001. Thereafter, the index will be rebalanced semiannually after the close of the third Friday of every January and July. To be included in GS-IST, companies must either be incorporated in Israel, or have 50% of their operations and/or R&D and/or assets in Israel.
GS-IST index levels are currently available on Bloomberg GSSIIST and Reuters GSSI1, and constituent level data is currently available on Bloomberg. All information will soon be available on the Goldman Sachs Public Web Site.
Performances as of October 31, 2000
GS-IST GSTI S&P 500 Nasdaq 100
1999 143.86% 88.58% 19.53% 101.95%
YTD -3.65% -11.88% 2.71% -11.48%
The GS-IST Index is comprised of:
Ticker Company Weight(%)
CHKP CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECH LTD. 8.50
CMVT COMVERSE TECHNOLOGY INC. 8.50
DOX AMDOCS LTD. 8.50
MERQ MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORP. 8.50
ECIL ECI TELECOM LTD. 8.50
ORBK ORBOTECH LTD. 5.81
SCIX SCITEX LTD. 5.59
AUDC AUDIOCODES LTD. 5.10
GILTF GILAT SATELLITE NETWORKS LTD. 4.85
VYYO VYYO INC. 3.37
DSPG DSP GROUP INC. 3.33
NICE NICE SYSTEMS LTD. 2.56
BRZE BREEZECOM LTD. 2.45
GALT GALILEO TECHNOLOGY LTD. 2.42
ZRAN ZORAN CORP. 2.40
FLSH M-SYSTEMS FLASH DISK PIONEER LTD. 1.83
RVSN RADVISION LTD. 1.81
CRNT CERAGON NETWORKS ORD. 1.58
RDWR RADWARE LTD. 1.36
FORTY FORMULA SYSTEMS 1985 LTD. 1.23
FNDT FUNDTECH LTD. 1.17
INDG INDIGO N V 1.17
CTCH COMMTOUCH SOFTWARE INC. 1.15
ECTX ECTEL LTD. 1.04
TSEM TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD. 0.97
BWEB BACKWEB TECHNOLOGIES LTD. 0.96
MTLK METALINK LTD. 0.77
EFCX ELECTRIC FUEL CORP. 0.76
ACCD ACCORD NETWORKS LTD. 0.69
MGIC MAGIC SOFTWARE ENTERPRISES LTD. 0.68
CAMT CAMTEK LTD. 0.66
TTIL TTI TEAM TELECOM INTL. LTD. 0.52
VOCL VOCALTEC COMMUNICATIONS LTD. 0.45
JCDA JACADA LTD. 0.43
ORCT ORCKIT COMMUNICATIONS 0,38
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