12 Things to Know About First REIT Before You Invest
First REIT listed on the SGX on 11 December 2006 as the first healthcare REIT in Singapore. It owns hospitals, nursing homes,…
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ETF Spotlight: Mortgage REITs
ETF Spotlight on the iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage REITs Index Fund (NYSEArca: REM), part of an ongoing series. Assets: $439.4 million. Objective:…
Record Low Interest Rates Could Support REIT ETFs
Real estate investment trust, or REIT, exchange traded funds may continue to generate higher profits as interest rates remain suppressed. Even if…
ETF Spotlight: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
ETF Spotlight on Vanguard REIT Sector ETF (NYSEArca: VNQ), part of an ongoing series. Assets: $25.2 billion. Objective: The Vanguard REIT Sector…
S&P’s Retail REIT ETF Pick
Retail real estate investment trusts and related exchange traded funds will provide investors with attractive dividends as the economy improves and retail…
ETF Chart of the Day: Real Estate Investment Trusts
The real estate market is often much in focus in periodic business headlines, as most market participants understand the dynamics involved in…
REIT ETFs Look Expensive After Big Run: Strategist
Exchange traded funds that invest in real estate investment trusts have roughly doubled the return of the S&P 500 so far this…
CB Richard Ellis Drags on Real Estate, Financial ETFs
CB Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBG) was down more than 6% Wednesday after the company reported first-quarter results, crimping exchange traded funds (ETFs)…
Will Higher Rates Crimp Real Estate ETFs?
Real estate exchange traded funds (ETFs) have bounced in a range so far in 2011 along with Treasury yields, but higher rates…
The Global REIT Comeback
Reports of the death of the real estate market have been greatly exaggerated. At least, that’s the belief of asset manager Cohen…
4 Reasons to Consider Global Real Estate ETFs
In this day and age, if you want to maximize your portfolio, you’ll diversify with global assets and exchange traded funds (ETFs),…
Can REIT ETFs Keep On Outperforming?
Last year, real estate investment trust exchange traded funds (ETFs) left the broader markets in the dust. Is it too much to…
REIT ETFs Quietly Storm the Markets
While people don’t seem too interested in the residential and commercial real estate markets, real estate investment trust (REIT) exchange traded funds…
Commercial Real Estate ETFs Looking for the Bottom
Commercial real estate exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the sector they track may have bottomed, according to one person. If that’s so,…