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. DATASOURCE: Cohen & Steers, Inc. CONTACT: Francis C. Poli, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc., +1-212-832-3232 Web site: http://www.cohenandsteers.com/

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