Cohen & Steers Announces Change in Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index

NEW YORK, Nov. 17  /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 November 21, 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:          FABG SS
  Deleted component name:            Fabege

  Deleted component symbol:          KLED SS
  Deleted component name:            Kungsleden AB

  Replacement component symbol:      ICAD FP
  Replacement component name:        Icade

  Replacement component symbol:      CLI
  Replacement component name:        Mack-Cali Realty


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

for Cohen & Steers, Inc., [phone]

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