RFI News and Press, Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund Inc. From 05/05/22

The map of the Asset Allocation Committee’s market views is a buzz of activity this quarter. Coming into 2022, we anticipated slower growth compared with the steep recovery levels of 2021 and inflation that was declining but persistent—and problematic due to its origins ...

The expected risk premium continued sliding in April for the Global Markets Index (GMI). Tuesday’s revision reflects a drop to a 5.4% annualized increase for the long term – a relatively large cut of 40 basis points from last month’s estimate. The forecast ref...

Student housing has seen a swift recovery and brightening outlook over the past twelve months as the effects of soaring rents have more-than-offset ongoing COVID issues and longer-term enrollment headwinds. American Campus - the first of three student housing REITs and last one still ...

U.S. equity markets declined for a fourth-straight week as lukewarm earnings results from mega-cap technology companies and downbeat economic data- including a GDP contraction- raised further concerns about emerging stagflation. Logging its worst month since the depths of the pandemic...

We're approaching the halfway point of another newsworthy real estate earnings season with over 50 REITs representing 50% of the total market capitalization having reported results. Among the 40 REITs that provided full-year FFO guidance, 30 REITs (75%) raised their outlook- well abov...

"Buy Land, They're Not Making More of It." We've developed the "Landowner Portfolio" - a new custom strategy designed to capture the benefits and investment characteristics of land ownership. The strategy targets exposure to publicly-traded companies that own or control significant ac...

With the world economy still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and now dealing with the Ukraine-Russia crisis, markets face a great deal of uncertainty. We look at capital structure, market characteristics, sustainability, physical resilience and cash flow variability when determi...

Only one major asset was up last week: REITs. There were some negative developments that might explain the selling. With the drop in commodities and fears about the impact of the China slowdown, the immediate effect should be for inflation and growth expectations to moderate. We didn&...

U.S. equity markets declined for a third-straight week while the bond rout deepened as a solid start to the corporate earnings season did little to ease concerns over an increasingly hawkish Fed. Declining for the third-straight week, the S&P 500 fell 2.7% and dipped back into "co...

Real estate earnings season kicks off this week, and over the next month, we'll hear results from 175 equity REITs, 40 mortgage REITs, and dozens of housing industry companies. Despite the historic surge in interest rates over the past quarter driven by expectations of Fed monetary ti...