FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 06/12/19

Co-produced with PendragonY for High Dividend Opportunities Introduction We are pleased to provide an updated report on Aberdeen Global Premier Properties Fund ( AWP ), a Property REIT CEF that we have been recommending to our investors. The Property REIT sector has been on fire la...

In explaining why highly levered, speculative cycles are so damaging to balance sheets and financial stability, I often reference the reality that when asset bubbles burst, prices drop and debt level rise, evaporating net worth rapidly and intensifying selling pressure. The graphic below cap...

By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management Over the past decade, e-commerce has evolved to accommodate an increasingly on-demand economy. While it was once adequate to wait 5-7 business days after ordering an item online, a growing number of consumers are placing a premium on sho...

Vancouver prices drop. Toronto down 3.7% from peak, flat for 10 months. Winnipeg plunges most since at least 1990. Quebec City flat for six years. In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.4% in April from March, the ninth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to...

"It is their interaction with froth that matters most. How much a housing market adjusts depends on how much froth there is": Poloz Across Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, sales of all types of homes so far this year through April plunged to 6,212 homes, the lowest count since 1986, ...

Can Australia's Housing Bust Morph Into A Financial Crisis? As the housing bust in Australia progresses in its methodical manner, will it trigger a mortgage crisis that hits the big four banks, and the remainder of Australia's financial system to the point where there's a banking panic and...

Danielle was a guest with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets. You can listen to an audio clip of the segment by clicking on the Play button below: Disclosure: No positions. Editor’s Note: The summ...

It has been almost one year since we initiated our first short position in Canada and made known our skepticism of the Canadian housing market (er, bubble) to our investors. Today we look upon the past year's worth of data to see how things have progressed and examine the key metrics we follow...

Low-interest rates, lax-lending and speculative fever drove a boom in property demand, size and opulence over the past decade in most of the world's major cities. Now home prices are unaffordable for most and debt is maxed out everywhere, just as aging owners are looking to cash out and lower ...

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...