Thomson Reuters Launches First Highly-Liquid, Investable, Real Estate Indices For ETF Market
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
London, May 14 2012 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading supplier of
intelligent information for businesses and professionals, and Global Property
Research today announced the launch of the first highly-liquid, real estate
indices. Designed specifically to be tracked by ETFs looking to offer investors
exposure to real estate markets globally, the TR/GPR indices provide a more
investable and tradable solution than currently available elsewhere.
The new suite of real estate indices provides broad global diversification,
including emerging markets. The TR/GPR Global 100 Index is composed of the 100
most liquid real estate stocks worldwide. Furthermore, three regional variants
for increased focus are also available; the TR/GPR Americas 40 Index, TR/GPR
APAC 30 Index and TR/GPR EMEA 30 Index. Customised indices to reflect a
particular mandate or strategy can also be designed.
The TR/GPR indices can be used to build real estate ETFs that closely represent
the property market, to track real estate performance or simply for benchmarking
purposes. In addition to high liquidity, customers benefit from transparent,
rules-based methodology and independently-calculated indices, ensuring that the
underlying stocks respect the publically available index rules.
The constituents of the TR/GPR indices focus on companies involved predominantly
in real estate investment, rather than pure property development.
"Real estate has been a challenging market since 2008, but last year we saw the
first signs of growth in US and Asia and more recently, this year, in Europe,"
said Jamie Robinson, head of commercial strategy & business development for
indices at Thomson Reuters. "With a potential revival in the sector, combined
with rising rental incomes, ETF providers are looking closely for investment
opportunities for their clients in this high yielding sector. However, feedback
from the market reveals a gap for a truly investable index that allows ETF
investors to participate in property investment; the TR/GPR suite of indices
will help create those opportunities."
Year to date returns from property have exceeded equity investments according to
the TR/GPR indices:
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| Name | % 3m | % 6m | % YTD | % 1y |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| STOXX 50 EUROPE GROSS RETURN (EUR) | 1.33 | 4.96 | 4.07 | -4.12 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| TR/GPR Europe 30 EUR | 5.43 | 4.99 | 10.65 | -5.41 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| TR GLOBAL TOTAL RETURN (USD) | 3.38 | 3.47 | 9.47 | -5.84 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| TR/GPR Global 100 USD | 8.36 | 8.48 | 16.01 | 3.08 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| MSCI AC APAC TOTAL RETURN (USD) | 1.89 | 2.28 | 10.11 | -7.18 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| TR/GPR APAC 30 USD | 9.67 | 6.70 | 21.38 | 0.78 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| S&P 500 TOTAL RETURN (USD) | 7.18 | 10.46 | 12.31 | 5.79 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
| TR/GPR Americas 40 USD | 8.11 | 13.16 | 13.78 | 19.88 |
+------------------------------------+------+-------+-------+-------+
Source: Thomson Reuters, data as at 1 May 2012
The TR/GPR indices complement the Thomson Reuters Real Estate service, a
dedicated global market intelligence service for real estate professionals. They
combine GPR's specialist knowledge of researching and indexing global listed
real estate markets with Thomson Reuters experience in calculating, maintaining
and distributing indices.
The TR/GPR index values and constituents will be available on Thomson Reuters
desktop products. Licences and data feeds are also available.
Notes to Editors:
1. Thomson Reuters Real Estate is a dedicated global market intelligence
service for real estate professionals. It combines real estate-focused and
related Thomson Reuters editorial content and databases with aggregated
research, data and news from specialist providers. Our service covers all
real estate asset classes, from direct investments to REITs, debt, funds and
property derivatives. For more information, go to: Thomson Reuters Real
Estate
2. Thomson Reuters provides indices and index services to help investors make
better decisions. Thomson Reuters is committed to total indexing solutions.
Our index clients and partners rely on the breadth, depth, global network
and vast data and content sets that only Thomson Reuters can provide. Backed
by the content, data, independence and global information network of Thomson
Reuters, our indices and index services are designed to suit any need.
Thomson Reuters Indices
About Global Property Research
Global Property Research provides services for international investors and asset
managers with top of the line benchmarks. All index products use an extensive
and unique proprietary database of global listed property companies. Global
Property Research has a proven track record since 1995. For more information, go
to: http://www.globalpropertyresearch.com.
About Thomson Reuters
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CONTACT
Clare Arber Jeroen Vreeker
Thomson Reuters Global Property Research
+44 20 7542 6256 +31 20 3488 451
clare.arber(at)thomsonreuters.com j.vreeker(at)gpr.nl
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