S&P, MSCI to make real estate a new index industry sector

S&P, MSCI to make real estate a new index industry sector

The real estate sector is "increasingly being incorporated separately into the strategic asset allocation," Remy Briand, global head of equity research at MSCI, said in a statement on Monday. The GICS changes will likely be implemented after the market close on Aug. 31, 2016. Companies including Sears (SHLD.O) have recently embarked in spinoffs of some of their real estate holdings. In late July ...

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:49:05 -0800

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Real Estate Gets Sector Status; How That Will Affect ETFs

After the close of U.S. markets Monday, S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI (NYSE: MSCI), two of the largest providers of benchmarks for exchange traded funds, announced that real estate will become the eleventh ...

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:05:38 -0800

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Rescheduled time - Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. to host quarterly conference call Tuesday November 11, 2014 at ...

Rescheduled time - Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. to host quarterly conference call Tuesday November 11, 2014 at 2:00 P.M.

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:47:00 -0800

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S&P Gives Real Estate Its Own Sector To Feed Investor Appetite

The S&P announced that it is breaking real estate out of financials and turning it into its own sector. The creation of real estate as its own stand-alone sector brings the S&P's sector total to 11.

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:19:55 -0800

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