RFI News and Press, Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund Inc. From 09/30/22

Summary With Hurricane Ian making landfall as a destructive Category 4 storm on the Southwest Florida coast this week, we examine the expected impact on manufactured housing REITs. The storm took a similar path as Hurricane Irma in 2017, but Ian's storm surge and wind impacts appe...

Summary RFI is a REIT equity focused CEF from the Cohen & Steers suite. The fund has an 80/20 allocation between REIT equity and financials preferred shares. The vehicle runs virtually no leverage and has a 5-year standard deviation lower than the S&P 500. The fund...

Summary The REIT crash is largely related to rapidly rising interest rates. Market pundits have a variety of theories suggesting REITs are susceptible to interest rates. We examine them to see which are true and which are bogus. I have long pondered the impact of ris...

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Funds Declare Distributions for October, November, and December 2022 Cohen & Steers Closed-End Funds Declare Distributions for October, November, and December 2022 PR Newswire NEW YORK , Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --...

Summary U.S. equity and bond markets plunged to the lowest levels of the year this past week after the Federal Reserve reiterated that further economic "pain" was necessary to cool inflation. Declining in five of the past six weeks and effectively erasing all of the benchmark's ga...

Summary Industrial REITs- a perennial performance leader since 2015- have been slammed this year despite delivering stellar operating performance with demand for well-located logistics space continuing to outstrip supply. Just as valuations were recovering from the Amazon-related ...

Summary U.S. equity markets posted their worst week since June after CPI data showed an unexpected acceleration in headline inflation, likely keeping the Fed on course to further tighten monetary policy. Declining in four-of-the-past five weeks and effectively erasing its summer r...

Summary 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 rising-rate environment. Even with rent growth significantly lagging inflation, net lease REITs ...

Summary U.S. equity markets snapped a three-week skid with broad-based gains this week as domestic inflation expectations receded sharply amid a further deterioration in the demand outlook for Europe and Asia. Rebounding after a three-week selloff that had erased much of the late-...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...