Moscow – PhosAgro ("the Company") (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), a leading global vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producer, announces that the FTSE Group has decided to add PhosAgro Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) to the FTSE Global Equity Index Series and the FTSE All World Equity Index Series effective as of the close of market trading on 15 March 2013 (
http://www.ftse.com/tech_notices/2013/Q1/77859_20130306_GEIS_Emerging_Europe_Review.jsp) .
PhosAgro CEO Maxim Volkov said: “We are very pleased with the decision by FTSE Group to add our shares to these indices, which are widely used by investors around the world in building and analysing investment portfolios of securities and derivatives.”
The FTSE Global Equity Index Series covers over 7,200 securities in 47 different countries and captures 98% of the world's investable market capitalisation.
The FTSE All-World Index Series is the aggregate of over 2,800 stocks from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series. It covers 90-95% of the investable market capitalisation.