S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes to the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

A Deletion from the S&P/TSX Composite Index

TORONTO, April 21, 2017 /CNW/ - S&P Dow Jones Indices Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:  

The unitholders of The Milestone Apartments REIT (TSX:MST.UN) have approved the $US16.25 cash per unit takeover offer from Starwood Capital Group. The units of Milestone Apartments REIT will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite, Capped Composite and Composite Equal Weight, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX Capped Real Estate, the S&P/TSX Capped REIT, the S&P/TSX Income Trust Index, the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend Index and the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Dividend Indices prior to the open of trading on Friday, April 28, 2017.

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SOURCE S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC.

Tony North, Director, Canadian Index Operations, Toronto, Ontario, ([phone], [email protected], David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee New York, USA, ([phone], [email protected]

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