FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 09/01/21

The winning streak for American shares rolled on in August. US stocks rose for a seventh straight month and posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes. US bonds also lost ground in August. The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index slipped 0.2%, the first monthly decline for the be...

How Hot is Too Hot? For Timber REITs, scorching-hot lumber demand from the resurgent housing industry - combined with sawmill production bottlenecks - sent lumber prices soaring to extreme levels. Inflating construction materials prices - and the outright inability to source necessary...

U.S. equity markets retreated on a choppy week after a downbeat slate of economic data heightened concern that the recent COVID resurgence could stall or reverse the global economic reopenings. Exhibiting a reversion back to the "stay at home" trading patterns, the large-cap S&am...

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, exerting downward pressure on prices. But will this deflationary bias be enough to offset the impact of a new, higher-inflation regime? History suggests that won’t necessarily be the case. It’s fair to say that the US was at t...

Glimmers of hope were beginning to emerge for the battered mall REIT sector, which has soared 50% this year on signs of stabilizing in occupancy rates and normalizing rent collection. Net Operating Income surged more than 40% in Q2 - albeit from easy comps - driven by a recovery in re...

The intensity of the income need only grows as investors move closer to - and enter - their retirement years. While diversified credit portfolios offer benefits, the potential drawdowns could be too much for some investors’ risk tolerances. For tax-sensitive investors, the ...

In our "State of the REIT Sector" report, we analyze recently-released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review high-level REIT fundamentals over the past quarter through a series of charts. REIT company-level metrics have exhibited a substantial rebound over the last year as FFO and dividends...

After lagging early in the pandemic, Apartment REITs have surged nearly 40% this year as rental operators across the country have been "passed the torch" of the flaming-hot housing market. Apartment rents are rising at the fastest rate on record as the pandemic-driven boom in househol...

During July, global consensus earnings estimates have re-accelerated to the upside, representing another bullish impulse in the tug of war between high valuations on the one hand and strong profits momentum on the other. Despite market worries of a loss of momentum in the near term, t...

IHS Markit's PMI business surveys showed the global economic recovery continuing into July, but the rate of expansion lost momentum for a second month running. The global economy continued to expand at a solid rate in July, according to the JPMorgan Global PMI™ (compiled by IHS...