Cohen & Steers Announces Change in Realty Majors Portfolio Index

NEW YORK, Aug. 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) announced today a pending change to its Realty Majors Portfolio Index (RMP) effective at the close of business on August 21, 2009.

  Component change:         Deletion and Replacement
  Index Name:               Cohen & Steers Realty Majors Portfolio Index
  Index Symbol:             RMP
  Calculation method:       Modified Capitalization Weighted Index

  Deleted component symbol:      CUZ
  Deleted component name:        Cousins Properties, Inc.

  Replacement component symbol:  OFC
  Replacement component name:    Corporate Office Properties Trust



The Realty Majors Portfolio Index is a modified capitalization-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 RMP. The index's modified capitalization-weighted approach and qualitative screening process emphasize companies that the Cohen & Steers Index Committee believes are leading the securitization of real estate in the United States.

RMP 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, Inc., [phone]

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