Cohen & Steers Announces Change in Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index

Friday, February 13, 2009 5:01 PM

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) announced today a pending change to its Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index (GRM) effective at the close of business on February 20, 2009.

    Component change:     Deletion and Replacement
    Index Name:           Cohen & Steers Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index
    Index Symbol:         GRM
    Calculation method:   Modified Capitalization Weighted Index
    Deleted component symbol:      BXTN LN
    Deleted component name:        Brixton PLC
    Deleted component symbol:      DDR
    Deleted component name:        Developers Diversified Realty
    Replacement component symbol:  CT SP
    Replacement component name:    Capitamall Trust
    Replacement component symbol:  DLR
    Replacement component name:    Digital Realty Trust

The Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index is a free-float, market-cap-weighted total return index of selected real estate equity securities. It is quoted intraday on a real-time basis by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange under the symbol GRM. The index's free-float market capitalization approach and qualitative screening process emphasize companies that the Cohen & Steers Index Committee believes are leading the securitization of real estate globally.

GRM can be used as an indexing benchmark, stock selection universe, underlying index for derivative instruments or performance benchmark. All index weightings are independently calculated by Standard & Poor's.

SOURCE Cohen & Steers, Inc.; Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index

(Source: PR Newswire )

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