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REIT Rankings: Healthcare (Hoya Capital Real Estate, Co-Produced with Brad Thomas ) Healthcare Real Estate Sector Overview Healthcare REITs have been ground-zero of the coronavirus pandemic, and no healthcare real estate sub-sector is immune from the significant near-term and lo...

In mid-March, the longest bull market was ended by the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 causing many investors to shift their focus from earnings and risk to balance sheets and safety. In the very beginnings of the COVID-19 period almost all assets classes and their constituents suffered synchron...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Whistling past the graveyard? U.S. equity markets finished decisively higher for the second-straight week as better-than-expected economic data and encouraging news of coronavirus treatments again overwhelmed concerns about the intensification of the coronaviru...

REIT Rankings: Self-Storage (Hoya Capital Real Estate, Co-Produced with Brad Thomas) Self-Storage REIT Sector Overview "Change" is proving to be a good thing for self-storage REITs, which stumbled into the 2020s with challenged fundamentals and a strained outlook but have deliv...

While exposure to the real estate asset class is common in defined benefit ((DB)) plans, this has only become a more recent occurrence in defined contribution ((DC)) plans. Many target-date funds (TDFs) have now started to provide exposure to real estate through stock exchange-listed real esta...

By Eric Franco and Ajit Ketkar The COVID-19 pandemic upended what had been a healthy real estate market entering 2020. Global real estate securities, as measured by the FTSE EPRA NAREIT Developed Index, are down 21.3% for the year through June 30—trailing global equities—th...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. U.S. equity markets finished sharply higher this week as strong employment and housing market data - and reports of progress on vaccine development - overwhelmed concerns of a potential intensification of the coronavirus pandemic. An ironic juxt...

The last few months have seen big shifts in key drivers of CEF earnings such as short-term rates and leverage levels. In this article we take a look at one small but important part of the CEF market - auction-rate preferred securities or ARPS. These instruments have historically been used by C...

By Detlef Glow Property and real estate investments are in general considered as safe-haven investments because bricks and mortar are real assets which can survive a storm in the equity markets. This claim can be considered as true if an investor invests directly into property. But as fund...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Not this again. U.S. equity markets pulled back on a volatile week after several states and corporations including Apple ( AAPL ) and Disney ( DIS ) announced plans to reverse progress on some parts of their reopening plans after coronavirus case counts jum...