RFI News and Press, Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund Inc. From 05/23/24

2024-05-23 07:12:11 ET Summary REIT FFO/share growth in 2023 was stalled due to increased insurance premiums and property taxes. Property taxes jumped from $170B to almost $200B in 2023, while insurance costs doubled as a percentage of revenue. Higher insurance premiums reduce...

2024-05-19 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record highs, while benchmark interest rates dipped to one-month lows after a critical slate of inflation and retail sales data showed an unexpected cooldown. Reflecting the mounting quantity of downside economic ...

2024-05-16 08:00:00 ET Summary Managers are increasingly focusing on sectors beyond tech that could benefit from the rise in AI in the short term. These include healthcare and consumer companies, which also have more attractive valuations. Globally, managers anticipate an increase...

2024-05-12 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets advanced for a third straight week as investors weighed solid corporate earnings results and moderately dovish Fed commentary against surprisingly downbeat economic data. The S&P 500 rallied 1.9% on the week to bring the bench...

2024-05-12 09:00:00 ET Summary CBRE Global Real Estate Income Fund is a closed-end fund that invests in the equities and preferred securities of real estate companies, including REITs. The IGR CEF is a global fund, and nearly one-third of its assets are invested in international r...

2024-05-11 09:00:00 ET Summary The SWAN (Sleep Well At Night) strategy aims to minimize volatility and draw-downs while achieving high-income and market-matching growth. The strategy consists of two buckets: a Funds-based High-Income Dividend bucket and a Hedging (Rotational) buck...

2024-05-10 08:35:00 ET Summary The apartment sector continues to experience deterioration in market fundamentals, primarily due to oversupply in Sunbelt metros. Demand has remained largely positive, but is not strong enough to offset record deliveries. Liquidity remains constr...

2024-05-05 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets advanced for a second week while benchmark interest rates retreated from five-month highs after a critical slate of employment data showed a long-awaited cooldown in hiring trends. Foreshadowed by "dovish" remarks from Fed Chair P...

2024-05-05 09:00:00 ET Summary Abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund is a closed-end fund that invests in real estate companies and REITs. AWP is a global fund, and invests both in the U.S. and international markets. We compare AWP's record with other real-estate CEFs and funds...

2024-05-05 01:06:22 ET Summary This is not the right moment to be speculative in the dividend world. By putting exercising some due diligence, investors can access juicy yields with limited risk. In this article, I tackle three questions. First, why it is a good time to be a d...