Bloomberg Indices announced the launch of the Bloomberg REIT & Real Estate Indices, a comprehensive suite of 40 free-float market capitalization-weighted indices designed to track the performance of REIT-focused companies.
Built with a transparent, rules-based methodology, these indices span a wide range of regions, countries, currencies and size segments, offering investors a systematic solution to gain exposure to the dynamic real estate sector. The indices also are customizable to meet diverse investment objectives by allowing investors to tailor exposure by geography, industry, weighting scheme and more.
The new index family is constructed according to the Bloomberg Industry Classification System (BICS) hierarchy for index eligibility, with included companies reflecting both traditional real estate operations like office REITs along with high-growth areas of the market like data centers and healthcare. Bloomberg’s integrated REIT offering aligns global and U.
