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{{Infobox financial index
| name         = Hang Seng Composite Index Series
| logo         = 
| image        = 
| caption      = 
| foundation   = {{start date and age|2001}}
| operator     = [[Hong Kong Stock Exchange]]
| exchanges    = [[Hong Kong Stock Exchange]]
| symbol       = HSCI
| constituents = 480
| cap_level    = [[Large cap]], [[Mid cap]] and [[Small cap company|Small cap]]
| mcap         = 
| weighting    = Free float adjusted
| homepage     = {{website |https://www.hsi.com.hk/eng/indexes/all-indexes/hsci }}
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The '''Hang Seng Composite Index''' is a [[stock market index]] of [[the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong]] and was launched in 2001. It offers an equivalent of Hong Kong market benchmark that covers around the top 95th percentile of the total market capitalisation of companies listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (“SEHK”). 

Its index calculation adopts the freefloat-adjusted [[market capitalisation]] methodology, and can be used as a basis for [[index fund]]s, [[mutual funds]] as well as performance benchmarks.  Its arguable that the composite index is a better reflection on the overall market performance than the more popular [[Hang Seng Index]], which only cover 50 stocks as opposed to over 480 stocks in the composite index.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/2071012/just-how-accurate-picture-hong-kong-stock-market-does-hang Just how accurate a picture of the Hong Kong stock market does the Hang Seng Index really give us?, SCMP 2017-02-15, Retrieved 2018-05-30]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-03 |title=Hang Seng Indexes |url=https://www.hsi.com.hk/chi/indexes/all-indexes/hsci |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703083835/https://www.hsi.com.hk/chi/indexes/all-indexes/hsci |archive-date=2019-07-03 }}</ref>

==Sub-index==
The Hang Seng Composite Index can be further dividend into 2 group of indexes : 1 on industry sector and 1 on market capitalisation.

===Industry sector index series===
There are 11 sub-indexes per industry sector:

*Energy 
*Materials
*Industrial Goods
*Consumer Goods 
*Consumer Services 
*Telecommunications
*Utilities 
*Financials 
*Properties & Construction 
*Information Technology 
*Conglomerates

===Market capitalisation index series===
There are 3 indexes on market capitalisation :LargeCap, MidCap and SmallCap Indexes, which cover the top 80%, the next 15% and the remaining 5% respectively of the total market capitalisation of the Hang Seng Composite Index.

*Hang Seng Hong Kong LargeCap Index		
*Hang Seng Hong Kong MidCap Index	
*Hang Seng Hong Kong SmallCap Index

==See also==
*[[Hang Seng Index]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.hsi.com.hk/static/uploads/contents/en/dl_centre/factsheets/hscie.pdf|title=Hang Seng Composite Index Series Factsheet|date=April 2018|access-date=30 May 2018|publisher=Hang Seng Indexes}}
* [https://www.hsi.com.hk/eng/indexes/all-indexes/hsci Official website of Hang Seng Composite Index]

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