REK News and Press, ProShares Short Real Estate From 02/09/22

Rising inflation has investors concerned about the impact on REITs. The research reported here examined how the big macroeconomic drivers change REIT returns. One can see below why the cash a REIT can generate, while staying leverage-neutral, will make total cash generation to be ...

Investors are wondering whether inflation will torpedo the value of their REITs. Part of the answer relates to how property Cap Rates will change with inflation. From the standpoint of both history and theory, I explore that here. For further details see: Why REIT Cap Ra...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index edged down in January from the previous month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors to adjust the forecast reduces GMI’s ex-ante risk premium to an annualized 5.4%. Th...

In your face, but still under the radar? Billboard REITs own a commanding share of the nation's 500,000 outdoor advertising displays - a surprisingly resilient business with strong inflation-hedging attributes. Unlike other increasingly-cluttered digital formats, there's "only one cha...

It's been a 'Tale of Two Americas' of late for the hotel industry. Several markets and categories continue to report severely depressed demand while others are seeing record-high occupancy rates. In a twist of fate, after posting dramatic gains during the vaccine development stages, h...

Cell Tower REITs have been one of the primary 'growth engines' of the REIT sector, but are poised to snap their six-year streak of outperformance over the REIT Index this year. The recent slump began around mid-year as several risk factors emerged including potential competition from ...

U.S. equity markets rebounded to fresh record-highs heading into the Christmas holiday after governments in the U.S. and U.K. showed restraint in instituting more severe economic restrictions amid the recent COVID reacceleration. Bouncing back from an Omicron-driven sell-off and endin...

ProShares has announced that they will make forward and reverse share splits on seventeen of their exchange traded funds which will go into effect in Jan. 2022. Moreover, the splits will not change the total value of a shareholder’s investment. Forward splits decrease the price per sha...

ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, announced today forward and reverse share splits on seventeen of its ETFs. The splits will not change the total value of a shareholder’s investment and will be effective on two separate dates. Forward Splits Seven ETFs will forwa...

The Fed is coming around to the idea that inflation may not be transitory, and they’re considering hiking rates. This has caused many investors to panic, especially those who hold REITs. However, REITs actually perform fine during rising rates, and today’s rising rat...