Cohen & Steers Announces Change in Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index
February 08 2008 - 5:58PM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cohen & Steers, Inc.
(NYSE:CNS) announced a pending change to its Global Realty Majors
Portfolio Index (GRM) today with an effective date of February 15,
2008. 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: ECT.AS Deleted component name: Eurocastle
Investment Limited Replacement component symbol: CPT Replacement
component name: Camden Property 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.
DATASOURCE: Cohen & Steers, Inc. CONTACT: Francis C. Poli,
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cohen & Steers
Capital Management, Inc., +1-212-832-3232 Web site:
http://www.cohenandsteers.com/
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