As the number of REITs increases worldwide, so too does the number of investment vehicles that are making it easier for investors to access REITs. A timely example recently occurred in Hong Kong, where CSOP Asset Management held a launch event for a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), that is benchmarked to the FTSE EPRA Nareit Asia Pacific Select REITS Capped Net Tax Index. The index is designed to represent the performance of the largest 50 REITs by full market capitalization listed in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It is also a subset of the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series, which covers both developed and emerging markets.
John Worth, executive vice president of research & investor outreach at Nareit, and Dominique Moerenhout, CEO of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), spoke at a luncheon, hosted by FTSE. Worth and Moerenhout spoke about the growth of REITs worldwide, their benefits, and how benchmarking investment vehicles, like ETFs, to the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series, offers investors the broadest global real estate coverage, including to modern economic sectors in developed and emerging markets alike.
Additional Resources:
- Receive daily returns for the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Series
- Read Nareit’s 2025 Global REIT Approach to Real Estate Investing
- Learn about CSOP Asset Management’s new CSOP FTSE Asia Pacific Select REITs ETF