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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Research says pension funds are leaving returns on the table by under-allocating to REITs.
Most private equity investment managers measure their performance using IRR, and illustrates how SLOCs and forward commitments can be used to manipulate IRR computations to make performance appear better than it really is.
REITs have also been building stronger relationships with fixed income investors.
The three authors of the study, Tom Arnold, David Ling, and Andy Naranjo spoke with REIT magazine about their research findings and the ramifications for public and private real estate investors.
If you’re a day-trader, average returns during long historical periods are irrelevant. For those with long horizons, exchange-traded Equity REITs have proven themselves over and over again.
Continued evolution in the REIT industry is expected to generate more opportunities for the creation of new indexes.
There’s little difference between the income earned by the largest, most sophisticated investors in private equity real estate and the income earned by the smallest individual investors in listed equity REITs.
The bedrock of any investor’s portfolio—no matter how small, no matter how large—is an allocation to the broad U.S. stock market. To go just the tiniest step further, most investors start with a mix of U.S. stocks and U.S. bonds. The question is what to add to that basic portfolio.
REITs are finding less is more when it comes to leverage.
While valuations are somewhat different across different segments of the REIT industry, there is a “wealth of undervaluation” in REITs today—and investors certainly should be paying closer attention.
The industry has taken environmental consciousness to heart, developing operating principles, eco-friendly technologies and best practices.
Chief investment strategist Steven Wieting sees “significant valuation improvement.”
REITs evolve over time to support economic growth.