FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 04/03/19

The largest headwind for Canadian households, lenders and the economy in 2019-20 is the same force that worked as a tailwind in the decade before: real estate. Naturally, the leaders of the boom years -the greater Vancouver and Toronto areas - are now also leading the deflation cycle. And a po...

Real Estate Weekly Review Real estate equities helped to power the US stock market to its best quarter in nearly a decade. The S&P 500 ( SPY ) surged nearly 13% for the quarter, the best quarterly gain since 2009, driven by the rejuvenation in the REIT and broader housing sectors. The ...

By Steve Shigekawa, Senior Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Brian Jones, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Anton Kwang, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, and Gillian Tiltman, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group Think listed real estate is dull, defensive and exposed to rising rates?...

By Greg Kuhl, CFA & Guy Barnard, CFA & Tim Gibson Tim Gibson, Guy Barnard and Greg Kuhl, Portfolio Managers for the Global Property Equities strategy, discuss how REITs can provide a way to capitalize on aging populations. The "silver tsunami" metaphor is frequently used to descr...

First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announces the declaration of distributions for 115 exchange-traded funds (each a “Fund,” collectively, the “Funds”) advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today's distribution declarations: FTA is a federally registe...

Under a proposed reorganization, First Trust Heitman Global Prime Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA: PRME ), an actively managed exchange-traded fund managed by First Trust Advisors, would be merged into First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Markets Real Estate Index Fund (NYSEARCA: FFR ), an ind...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the Board of Trustees of First Trust Heitman Global Prime Real Estate ETF (NYSE Arca: PRME), an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”), managed by FTA, approved the reorganization of PRME into First Tru...

By Greg Kuhl, CFA and Adam Hetts, CFA Given the volatility recently experienced in capital markets, a common refrain among today's forward-looking investors is: "How will the next five years be different from the last?" Considering the historic outperformance of U.S. equity markets sin...

Here is an interesting piece on housing supply in England. (HT: TC ) There are two graphs in the piece, shown here. And the author, Ian Mulheirn, argues that data on home size shows that there isn't a supply shortage. I have posted on a previous post of Mulheirn's where he makes a sim...

Who Wins in a long-drawn-out gradual Housing Bust? It always boils down to this: Regardless of how thin you cut a slice of bologna, there are always two sides to it. When home prices drop after a housing bubble, there are many losers. But here are the winners - including a whole generation...