FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 10/04/21

Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...

Global markets suffered their broadest retreat in a year during September. The bullish exception: commodities, which delivered a solid gain last month. Notably, US stocks and bonds lost ground, giving support to concerns that the historical diversification benefits of pairing the two ...

With vaccines in arms and the economy rebounding, it was poised to be a memorable summer for hotel REITs and the broader tourism industry before the resurgence of COVID variants. The "fourth wave" came at an inopportune time for the industry, which was relying on robust demand in the ...

U.S. equity markets staged a late-week rally to end a turbulent week with gains as concerns over instability in Chinese markets were offset by signs of resilient strength across US housing markets. Snapping a skid in which the benchmark average declined in 10-of-12 trading s...

REITs continue to achieve positive total returns in every single month of 2021 with +0.87% average return in August. Large cap REITs (+2.3%) continued to outperform their smaller peers in August. Micro caps (-2.49%) underperformed again. Nearly three fifths (59.44%) of REIT securi...

Single-Family Rentals are one of the great success stories of the Modern REIT Era, becoming a "core" institutional asset class and quieting the critics that questioned SFR REITs' ability to operate efficiently. The combination of historically low housing supply and strong demographic-...

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...

Big Box Is Back: The COVID pandemic has radically transformed consumer spending habits - perhaps permanently - shifting spending towards goods over services and towards larger-format retailers over smaller shops. While enclosed regional malls face a long and uncertain road to recovery...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...

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...