FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 06/15/22

The REIT sector has fallen in 4 of the first 5 months of 2022, including a -3.51% total return in May. Small cap (-2.26%) and mid cap (-3.46%) REITs outperformed, while large caps (-4.48%) and micro caps (-5.82%) saw deeper losses in May. Only 31.18% of REIT securities had a posit...

Amid mounting recession worries and a return of heart-stopping market volatility, residential REITs - particularly the traditionally countercyclical single-family rentals - should prove to be a source of relative shelter. Single-Family Rental REITs were born from the last economic cri...

Understood to be one of the more "bond-like" and rate-sensitive REIT sectors, net lease REITs have surprisingly been among the best-performing property sectors this year despite the challenging macroeconomic environment. Even with rent growth significantly lagging inflation, net lease...

Mortgage REITs – along with other fixed income-oriented securities across the credit and maturity curve - have stabilized in recent weeks as bond market volatility has calmed following a historically rough early-2022. Earnings results confirmed that the challenging macro enviro...

Shopping Center REITs are the second-best performing major property sector this year - significantly outpacing their mall REIT peers, despite the recent "retail rout" and moderation in stimulus-fueled retail spending trends. After a surge in store closings during the pandemic, the num...

Industrial REITs - a perennial performance leader in recent years - have been slammed over the past month with declines of 20-30% after Amazon announced plans to cut costs in its logistics network. Amazon has pumped the brakes on its aggressive pandemic-fueled footprint expansion...

I invest in real estate and think it’s one of the best long-term investments, beating out the stock market if you were to factor in risk/volatility. In one month, real estate fell 14.7% in parts of Canada and the USA. In fact, the IYR real estate ETF fell 15% as well which help...

U.S. equity markets extended a dismal stretch of declines to seven-straight weeks amid concerns over persistent inflation, slowing growth, and questions over the Fed's ability to engineer a "soft landing." The S&P 500 dipped another 3.0% on the week while the Dow Jones Industrial ...

U.S. equity markets declined for the sixth-straight week after hotter-than-expected inflation reports failed to show significant signs of easing and kept the "pedal to the metal" for Fed monetary tightening. Flirting with "bear-market" territory before paring its declines later in the...

Unable to avoid the broader 'Tech Wreck' weakness, Data Center REITs are among the worst-performing real estate sectors this year with declines of nearly 30% - their steepest drawdown on record. Cloud computing demand remains insatiable and has historically been unaffected by uncertai...