FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 01/20/21

Global restrictions on travel, along with stay-at-home directives, have seen reduced demand for infrastructure assets such as airports and toll roads. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted company dividend payments across a broad range of sectors including financials, consumer goods, tra...

The average REIT had a negative monthly return in 7 of the 12 months of 2020, with a 3.48% total return in December. Mid cap (+4.5%) and micro cap REITs (+3.45%) outperformed in December, while small caps (+2.43%) saw smaller gains. 75% of REIT securities had a positive total retu...

U.S. equity markets finished mostly lower this past week as partisan tensions raged on while economic data and corporate earnings reports indicated that the U.S. economy stumbled into the start of 2021. The S&P 500 retreated 1.5% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipped more than 2% ami...

Despite suffering steeper losses in the March panic and again in the September/October correction, the Russell 1000 finished 2020 with a threefold lead over its global peers (up 21% versus 6.8%, respectively). As was the case globally, P/E multiple expansion, rather than dividend or f...

One had hoped for 2020 to be a year with a clear (20/20) vision for a promising future. Alas, it turned out to be anything but. Unlike the US and Europe, Asia still has more levers at its disposal to manage its economy in the near term with interest rates not yet at zero and with more...

Asset valuations, in themselves, cannot tell us when bubbles will burst, but they suggest when we are witnessing them and the depth of liquidation coming on the other side. Today, equities, corporate and many sovereign bonds (and the funds and ETFs that hold them) are more extremely p...

Covid has had a significant impact on European listed real estate. A few things are different compared to the Global Financial Crisis. These distinctions have resulted in the different performance of the listed real estate overall, and of specific sectors. For further detail...

U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record highs on the Thanksgiving-shortened week as strong housing data, positive vaccine developments, and "market-friendly" Cabinet picks offset ongoing COVID concerns. Pushing its November gains to over 11%, the S&P 500 rallied another 2...

The European commercial real estate is estimated to represent some EUR 7.27 trillion of assets. While still small compared to the US and Asia, it has been undergoing significant changes in recent years. Listed and unlisted real estate vehicles can be complementary in a real estate...

The Great Financial Crisis of the prior decade resulted in long-term lingering pain for the commercial real estate sector. For REITs, "this time has been different," both for better and worse. The pandemic has resulted in a sharp plunge in property-level metrics that dwarfs that ...