NEW YORK, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 May 17, 2013.
Component change: | Deletion and Replacement |
Index Name: | Cohen & Steers Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index |
Index Symbol: | GRM |
Calculation method: | Free-Float Adjusted Modified Market Capitalization Weighted Index |
Deleted component symbol: | 12.HK |
Deleted component name: | Henderson Land Development |
Deleted component symbol: | CFX.AU |
Deleted component name: | CFS Retail Property Trust GR |
Deleted component symbol: | OFC |
Deleted component name: | Corporate Office Properties |
Replacement component symbol: | 1972.HK |
Replacement component name: | Swire Properties LTD |
Replacement component symbol: | 8953.JP |
Replacement component name: | Japan Retail Fund Investment |
Replacement component symbol: | O |
Replacement component name: | Realty Income Corp |
The Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index is a free-float adjusted, modified 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
