SPRE News and Press, SP Funds S&P Global REIT Sharia ETF From 12/08/22

Summary Amid the crosscurrents, two themes have prevailed during the post-pandemic years, which lend some perspective to the macroeconomic roadmap ahead: namely, the bipolar swings in macro policy and the forces of economic normalization. After one of the worst years for fixed income as...

Summary Global business conditions worsened in the penultimate month of the year according to the JPMorgan Global Composite PMI, compiled by S&P Global. New order expansions were seen in merely three of the 21 sectors tracked by the global PMI - software & services, pharmaceutic...

Summary We believe it is unlikely that Fed Chair Jerome Powell will navigate a pivot to a less-hawkish stance before early in 2023. We expect China to grow at a meager 2%-3% pace in 2022, with the potential for these risks to bleed into 2023, as a slowing developed-market consumer...

Summary The ETFB Green SRI REITs ETF (RITA) invests in stocks of companies that follow the values and teachings of Shariah law. While new, the index provides longer history. I will compare RITA to the unrestricted iShares Global REIT ETF (REET) to see how RITA's screening affected...

Why inflation may not be all bad for real estate? Is Canadian real estate facing a crash? Not likely. How a slower Canadian housing market may affect economic growth? Aggressive interest rate hikes by central banks have sent a significant chill across the real es...

Excessive pandemic stimulus has resulted in historically expensive global property prices. Despite differences between countries, the issue is widespread with the vast majority of nations now having expensive property markets. Prices are the most expensive in decades, including mo...

The REIT sector has fallen in 5 of the first 6 months of 2022, including a -9.44% total return in June. Large cap (-7.01%) and micro cap (-9.27%) REITs outperformed, while mid caps (-9.66%) and small caps (-10.61%) suffered the heaviest losses in June. Only 10.0% of REIT securitie...

Prologis is the largest industrial real estate company in the world. It was formed after a merger with AMB Property Corporation in 2011. The company has over 5,000 tenants, with its largest being Ecommerce giant Amazon. Management has recently announced the acquisition of Logistic...

New orders placed for goods and services rose worldwide in June at the slowest rate for nearly two years, registering only a modest expansion of demand during the month. Future prospects look especially gloomy for financial services and notably for real estate. Banking firms saw n...

Growth is slowing, but it’s slowing to trend at this point. So not to zero, not to negative, but something like the trend that we’ve experienced over the last couple of decades. So, if you’re looking for a great way to play inflation, look to the small cap asset c...