FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 03/11/22

Unlike their mall REIT peers, Shopping Center REITs entered 2022 with fundamentals that are as strong- or possibly even stronger- than before the pandemic with a full recovery now complete. Occupancy rate trends and leasing spreads have been especially impressive with rents rising by ...

On the front-lines of the historic supply-chain shortages, Industrial REITs outperformed the broad-based REIT Index for the sixth consecutive year in 2021, but have uncharacteristically lagged in early 2022. Industrial occupancy rates declined to record-lows below 4% despite robust le...

U.S. equity markets finished lower on another turbulent week as the Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a historic surge in commodities prices and sparked a bid for safe-haven domestic assets. Now having declined in six of the nine weeks of 2022, the S&P 500 declined 1.3%, back ...

Data Center REITs - a perennial performance leader in the REIT sector - are in "bear market" territory for the third time this decade as technology stocks have lost their luster this year. Data center demand and fundamentals remain resilient and were remarkably unaffected by the pande...

Sentiment is the worst since the pandemic lows among real estate investors. Global REITs have suffered – first from rising rates, now from geopolitical fears. The S&P Real Estate sector is the second-worst performer so far this year. Only Allocations are somewhat light ...

As the world reels from the crisis, the blowback is rippling across the world economy and markets. The current risk premia analysis implicitly recommends managing expectations down for GMI and other global multi-asset-class portfolios. The mean reversion factor is estimated as the...

Signs of Life: Mall REITs were the best-performing REIT sector in 2022 - nearly doubling in value amid hopeful signs of stabilizing fundamentals - snapping a dreadful six-year-long streak of underperformance. Last Man Standing? The lower-end mall segment was hollowed out by the pandem...

Rents are soaring at the fastest pace on record in essentially every major market across the country. After rising nearly-20% in 2021, renters should prepare for double-digit growth again in 2022. Riding the rental boom, Apartment REITs continue to report stellar earnings results, end...

At the halfway point of another newsworthy REIT earnings season, the majority of REITs are now in "correction" territory with several of the highest-flying REITs in "bear market" territory. Consistent with the trends seen across the broader equity market, REIT earnings have generally ...

January was a brutal month for nearly all asset classes including the REIT sector, which endured a -5.66% total return. Micro cap (-1.65%) and small cap REITs (-5.47%) outperformed as mid caps (-5.87%) and large caps (-7.2%) suffered heavier losses. Only 12.57% of REIT securities ...