NEW YORK, Aug. 8 /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 August 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:      8804.JP
    Deleted component name:        Tokyo Tatemono Co LTD

    Deleted component symbol:      GFJ.GR
    Deleted component name:        Gagfah SA

    Deleted component symbol:      IVG.GR
    Deleted component name:        IVG Immobilien AG

    Deleted component symbol:      GPT.AU
    Deleted component name:        GPT Group

    Replacement component symbol:  CPA.AU
    Replacement component name:    Commonwealth Property Office

    Replacement component symbol:  DEI
    Replacement component name:    Douglas Emmett Inc.

    Replacement component symbol:  WRI
    Replacement component name:    Weingarten Realty Investors

    Replacement component symbol:  BEI-U.CN
    Replacement component name:    Boardwalk Real Estate Invest

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.

SOURCE Cohen & Steers, Inc.