OLD News and Press, The Long-Term Care ETF From 10/14/19

REIT Rankings: Healthcare In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We analyze companies within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit their own investing...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook While far from the "grand bargain" trade deal that seemed possible many months ago, a trade truce this week between the US and China was welcome news for investors after weeks of escalating trade tensions that bled into mainstream American sports and entertainmen...

(Source - Pexels/Pixbay ) It is widely believed that the Healthcare sector is a safe sector in a recessionary environment because "people always need medical treatment." While that is historically true, it seems that many investors are underweighting the substantial risks in the sector. H...

(Source - Pexels ) Healthcare has consistently been one of the top-performing sectors on a risk-adjusted basis throughout the current bull market. During its first half, biotechnology ( IBB ) and pharmaceuticals ( XPH ) were all the rage seeing 50% annualized returns per year until the bubb...

REIT Rankings: Healthcare In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We analyze companies within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit their own investing...

Real Estate Weekly Review The US equity markets notched their best first-half of the year in more than two decades as expectations of easing monetary policy and slowing-but-steady economic growth lifted the S&P 500 ( SPY ) more than 17% through the first two quarters. The rally comes des...

Real Estate Weekly Review Almost six months to the day after US equities entered a bear market in late-December 2018, the major stock indexes jumped to new record highs this week, bouncing more than 25% from those 2018 lows. Powered by an expectation of easing monetary policy and a continuat...

What is Real Estate Crowdfunding? Emerging from the relative success of internet-based capital raising platforms including Kickstarter and GoFundMe, a handful of entrepreneurial real estate firms have attempted to channel the “crowdfunding” model into the real estate inves...

Real Estate Weekly Review On a tumultuous month that saw the S&P 500 ( SPY ) dive more than 6% and temporarily wipe-out more than $4 trillion in market value, REITs ( VNQ ) eked out a 0.1% monthly gain as real estate became the best-performing equity sector in 2019. The sudden and unexpe...

Real Estate Weekly Review For the 17th time out of the 21 weeks of 2019, the REIT Indexes ( VNQ and IYR ) finished the week higher, continuing to feel the tailwinds of the retreat in benchmark interest rates. The 10-Year yield dipped to the lowest level since late 2017 as trade worries and...