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. DATASOURCE: Cohen & Steers, Inc.; Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index CONTACT: Francis C. Poli, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cohen & Steers, Inc., +1-212-832-3232

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