S&P Dow Jones Indices is expanding its real estate index family with the launch of the Dow Jones US Select Equal Weight REIT Index, which has been designed to serve as a proxy for direct real estate investment by measuring the performance of publicly-traded real estate investment trusts (Reits) and Reit-like securities. SRP data shows that there are currently 779 products linked to Reit-based underlyings across all data bases, of which 243 structures are still live. "The launch of this ind