What Accounts for REITs’ Relative Performance vs S&P 500 During the Recent Stock Market Turbulence?
The total return on listed Equity REITs since stock market volatility spiked higher last August is 500 bps higher than the total return on the S&P 500. Moreover, REITs performed better than seven of the 10 headline Sectors according to the S&P/MSCI Global Industry Classification System (GICS®)