FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 07/17/21

U.S. equity markets retreated from record highs this past week, pressured by renewed COVID concerns and hotter-than-expected inflation data showing the fastest rise in consumer and producer prices in decades. The S&P 500 declined by 1.0% on the week while Mid-Caps and Small-Caps s...

The REIT sector has achieved a positive total return in every single month of the first half of 2021, including a +2.97% average return in June. Micro cap REITs (+6.05%) led in June, outperforming their larger peers in back to back months. Mid caps (+1.70%) underperformed again in Jun...

Comeback Kids: Self-Storage REITs have delivered as impressive of a turnaround as any property sector in recent memory, catalyzed by the ongoing housing boom and the acceleration in housing market turnover. An ensemble of impressive earnings results indicated that the p...

Each stock traditionally has a hierarchy of factors: sector/industry classification, geographic classification, and residual exposures. These are known as style factors. As 2021 has progressed, the market has been much more rotational. Growth, value, beta, and momentum factors have al...

The red-hot industrial property market - the physical "hub" of e-commerce - has shown few signs of cooling down through mid-2021 as businesses scramble to build out supply chain resiliency. Industrial REITs - which recorded the strongest earnings and dividend growth of any real estate...

U.S. equity markets were mixed on a volatile holiday-shortened trading week as renewed concerns over the spread of COVID variants and downbeat economic data pulled global sovereign yields to five-month lows. Climbing for the third-straight week and closing at record highs, t...

Left for dead early in the pandemic, the prognosis for Healthcare REITs has improved dramatically over the several quarters as coronavirus cases have been all-but-eradicated in U.S. senior housing facilities. Senior Housing REITs - the hardest-hit sub-sector - have led the recovery as...

We still see opportunities in the office sector of the global real estate market, but with changing work patterns driving dispersion across assets and locations. U.S. job growth accelerated in June, signaling labor market bottlenecks could be starting to ease. Stocks hit record highs....

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to push higher in June, based on the annualized Sharpe ratio for a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. GMI’s 10-year SR increased to 0.84, the highest in 18 months. GMI is an unmanaged, market-value...

Cannabis REITs are riding a seemingly never-ending 'high' since bursting onto the scene in the late 2010s, thriving in the murky and often contradictory regulatory framework of legalized marijuana. The ongoing federal prohibition - and the resulting limit on access to traditional bank...