Methodology Change | Solactive GPR Data & Infrastructure Real Estate Index | Effective Date 04 December 2023

Today, on  21/11/2023, Solactive announces the following changes to the methodology of the following Indices (the ‘Affected Indices’)

Rationale for Methodology Change

In the last rebalancing of the index a company was dropped based on the existing market capitalization requirement (rule 2.1.5) of the index. Because of the changing market condition, the index rules are proving to be inadequate to yield a universe of sufficient size for the weighting mechanism described in rule 2.3 to be implemented correctly. The proposed changes aim at broadening the universe of the affected indices so that the weighting mechanism can be implemented as required by the methodology.

Changes to the Index Guideline

The following Methodology changes will be implemented in the following points of the Index Guideline

2.1. Selection of the Index Components

Old Text:

3. All United States data center REIT companies that are not components of the GPR 250 Index on a Selection Day

New Text:

3. All data center companies that are not components of the GPR 250 Index on a Selection Day
   
   

Old Text:

4. Allocated to the Developed Markets on a selection day

 New Text:

4. Listed in Developed or Emerging Countries as defined by Solactive Country Classification Framework
   
   

Old Text:

5.Free Float Market Capitalization of at least USD 500,000,000 on a respective Selection Day

New Text:

5.Free Float Market Capitalization of (i) at least USD 250,000,000 on a respective Selection Day and (ii) at least USD 500,000,000 on any day within the last twenty-four months.

Old Text:

6.Average Daily Volume Traded in the last twelve months of at least 10,000 shares.

New Text:

6.Average Daily Volume Traded in the last twenty-four months of at least 10,000 shares.

Old Text:

N/A

New Text:

7. Average Daily Value Traded in the last twenty-four months of at least USD 2,000,000.

The new guideline change will be effective on December 04, 2023.

Defined terms used in this announcement, but not defined herein, have the meaning assigned to them in the respective index guideline of the Affected Indices. The amended version of the index guideline will be available on the effective date