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Maguire Properties, Inc. Added to
KLD's Domini 400 Social Index
BOSTON,
MA - July 21, 2005 - KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. announced
today that Maguire Properties, Inc. (MPG) has been added
to KLD's Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index). Maguire Properties is headquartered
in Los Angeles, California.
Maguire
Properties is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that
acquires, manages and develops office space in the Los
Angeles metropolitan area. The company also owns parking
garages and a hotel in the greater Los Angeles area.
Reasons KLD added
the company to the Domini 400 Social Index
- Maguire Properties,
Inc. has a written policy to hire only union contractors
for construction work.
- Part of the company's
publicly stated mission is the revitalization of downtown
Los Angeles as a place to "work and play." Timothy Walker,
the company's senior vice president of marketing, is
the chair of The Los Angeles Downtown Center Business
Improvement District (L.A. DCBID), a nonprofit coalition
of property owners committed to enhancing the livability
of downtown Los Angeles. After a fire devastated the
Los Angeles Central Library, the company partnered with
various community groups to prevent its demolition and
to help renovate the building. In addition, the company
built Maguire Gardens, a downtown Los Angeles public
park, which recreates Los Angeles Central Library's
grand entrance dating back to 1925.
- The company includes
sexual orientation in its written nondiscrimination
policy and offers health and other benefits coverage
to same-sex domestic partners of its employees.
About the KLD Family of Indexes
KLD's
family
of social, environmental and sustainability indexes includes:
the Domini 400 SocialSM
Index (DS 400 Index), launched in 1990, the established
benchmark for measuring the impact of social screening
on financial performance; the KLD Catholic Values 400SM
Index, launched in 1998, modeled on KLD's DS 400 Index;
the KLD Broad Market SocialSM
Index (KLD BMSI), launched in 2001, the screened subset
of the Russell 3000®
Index; the KLD Large Cap SocialSM
Index (KLD LCSI), launched in 2001, the screened subset
of the Russell 1000®
Index; the KLD NASDAQ Social Index (KLD NS Index), launched
in 2002, modeled on the NASDAQ Composite Index; the KLD
Select SocialSM Index
(KLD SSI), launched in 2004, the first US index maximizing
sustainability factors; and the KLD Global Climate 100SM
Index (KLD GC 100), launched in 2005, the first global
index focused on solutions to climate change.
About KLD Research & Analytics,
Inc.
KLD Research & Analytics,
Inc. (www.kld.com) is
an independent investment research and index company.
Its products and services enable institutional money managers
and investors to integrate social and environmental factors
into their investment strategies, while helping them gather
assets, manage risk and control costs. The company is
known for the 15-year-old Domini 400 Social Index, the
world's first index to benchmark the performance of equity
portfolios subject to multiple social screens. Today more
than $8 billion is invested in funds based on KLD Indexes.
For more information about KLD or its family of Indexes,
please see our website (www.kld.com)
or contact Karen Agredo by phone (617.426.5270) or e-mail
(kagredo@kld.com).
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