WORK - The Problems Of VNQ And How To Outperform

REITs are famous for three things:

• They pay high dividends.
• They are defensive investments.
• They tend to outperform in the long run:

In fact, over the past 20 years, REITs had the very best performance among 10 major asset classes including large-cap stocks (SPY), value stocks (IWM), growth stocks (IWF), utilities (XLU), and high-yield bonds (HYG), etc.

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The more difficult question to answer is how to invest in REITs? When looking at all the different strategies, most investors consider two main options:

• Option 1:

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