Tortoise Announces Expected Constituent Change Due to Merger and Acquisition Activity

Tortoise today announced that Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) has been removed from Tortoise Global Cloud Infrastructure Index^SM as a result of the completion of the acquisition by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) on July 9, 2019.

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