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Global Real Estate Stocks: Time To Get Out?
AllianceBernstein • Tue, Mar 19 • 9 Comments
Diversify With A Global Real Estate ETF
Casey Smith • Wed, Jul 25, 2012 • 5 Comments
Top 10 Global Real Estate ETFs
David Fry • Wed, May 30, 2012 • 3 Comments
REITs And The Cost of Regulation
Ira Stoll • Fri, Sep 2, 2011 • 20 Comments
Inside or Outside: What Belongs in a Tax Deferred Retirement Account, What Doesn't?
Kevin Feldman • Wed, Jul 6, 2011 • 62 Comments
The Global REIT Comeback
Tom Lydon • Thu, Mar 3, 2011
Four Reasons to Diversify Your Portfolio With Global Real Estate ETFs
Tom Lydon • Fri, Feb 11, 2011 • 3 Comments
ING: Global REIT Returns Estimated at 8%-12% for 2011
Brad Case • Fri, Feb 4, 2011 • 26 Comments
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments
2010 REIT Recap
Brad Case • Tue, Jan 4, 2011 • 7 Comments
ETFs With Little Volume but Big Returns, Revisited
Street One Financial • Tue, Dec 21, 2010
Why REITs Will Benefit From the Real Estate Crisis
Brad Case • Wed, Nov 10, 2010 • 12 Comments
U.S. Market vs. Major World Indexes: Restoring Positive Correlation to the Dollar and Market
Hedge Fund Live • Wed, Nov 3, 2010 • 1 Comment
Income Strategies for a Low Yield Environment
AAII • Fri, Oct 15, 2010 • 13 Comments
Updating the Commercial Real Estate Picture
Bill Luby • Tue, Oct 5, 2010 • 1 Comment
Real Estate: Still (And Always) About Location
Chris Rodriguez • Fri, Sep 17, 2010 • 7 Comments
Buy and Hold, Asset Allocation and Rebalancing
James Picerno • Mon, Sep 13, 2010 • 6 Comments
Do Information Asymmetries Explain the Housing Bubble?
Felix Salmon • Thu, Sep 2, 2010 • 9 Comments
New REIT Issues Just Keep on Coming
Streetwise Blog • Wed, Jul 28, 2010
5 ETFs for Income Investors
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 28, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Updating the Commercial Real Estate Picture
Bill Luby • Tue, Oct 5, 2010 • 1 Comment
Real Estate: Still (And Always) About Location
Chris Rodriguez • Fri, Sep 17, 2010 • 7 Comments
Is Dubai a Better Play on Real Estate Recovery Than the U.K. or U.S.?
Peter Cooper • Wed, Dec 17, 2008 • 12 Comments

Global Real Estate Stocks: Time To Get Out?
AllianceBernstein • Tue, Mar 19 • 9 Comments
Diversify With A Global Real Estate ETF
Casey Smith • Wed, Jul 25, 2012 • 5 Comments
Top 10 Global Real Estate ETFs
David Fry • Wed, May 30, 2012 • 3 Comments
REITs And The Cost of Regulation
Ira Stoll • Fri, Sep 2, 2011 • 20 Comments
Inside or Outside: What Belongs in a Tax Deferred Retirement Account, What Doesn't?
Kevin Feldman • Wed, Jul 6, 2011 • 62 Comments
The Global REIT Comeback
Tom Lydon • Thu, Mar 3, 2011
Four Reasons to Diversify Your Portfolio With Global Real Estate ETFs
Tom Lydon • Fri, Feb 11, 2011 • 3 Comments
ING: Global REIT Returns Estimated at 8%-12% for 2011
Brad Case • Fri, Feb 4, 2011 • 26 Comments
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments
2010 REIT Recap
Brad Case • Tue, Jan 4, 2011 • 7 Comments
ETFs With Little Volume but Big Returns, Revisited
Street One Financial • Tue, Dec 21, 2010
Why REITs Will Benefit From the Real Estate Crisis
Brad Case • Wed, Nov 10, 2010 • 12 Comments
U.S. Market vs. Major World Indexes: Restoring Positive Correlation to the Dollar and Market
Hedge Fund Live • Wed, Nov 3, 2010 • 1 Comment
Income Strategies for a Low Yield Environment
AAII • Fri, Oct 15, 2010 • 13 Comments
Buy and Hold, Asset Allocation and Rebalancing
James Picerno • Mon, Sep 13, 2010 • 6 Comments
Do Information Asymmetries Explain the Housing Bubble?
Felix Salmon • Thu, Sep 2, 2010 • 9 Comments
New REIT Issues Just Keep on Coming
Streetwise Blog • Wed, Jul 28, 2010
5 ETFs for Income Investors
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 28, 2010 • 4 Comments
A CRE Downturn Won't Crash the Markets
Tom Brown • Thu, Jan 28, 2010 • 1 Comment
Investing in Real Estate ETFs
Michael Johnston • Wed, Jan 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

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FFR Description

First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Markets Real Estate Index Fund is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before fees and expenses, of an equity index called the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index.
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Key Info

In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Real Estate [REIT] ETFs
Asset Class Performance: Real Estate

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Thursday, January 24, 10:48 AM Performance of U.S. REITs (IYR, VNQ) has been good, but international REITs like RWX have done even better while sporting higher yields. Greater alpha is nice on the way up, but don't think tighter Fed policy won't hit international REITs even harder than domestic ones, says Stephen Cucchiaro. A compromise might be RWO, which splits its portfolio between the U.S. and overseas. Comment! [Global & FX]
Wednesday, January 9, 10:50 AM International allocations are sharply higher at Windhaven Asset Management - an arm of Schwab and the biggest player in ETF-managed portfolios. Favorites are international real-estate ETFs (WPS an example), Hong Kong (EWH) and Germany (EWG). Domestically, the funds are overweight tech (QQQ). Comment! [Global & FX]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 3:28 PM Developed real estate ex-U.S. (WPS) continues a torrid run, both absolutely and measured against U.S. real estate (IYR, VNQ). Though its holdings are concentrated in Asia and Australia, WPS began its outperformance right around the time of Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" remarks concerning EMU. WPS +31.5%, IYR +13.5% YTD. 1 Comment [Global & FX, U.S. Economy]
Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:29 PM Developed real estate ex-U.S. (WPS) holds its ground over the last 2 months as domestic property (IYR) falls more than 7%. YTD, WPS is up 25.4% vs. an 8.7% gain for IYR. Another international fund, VNQI - holding many of the same stocks, but less top-heavy - has posted an even greater return, +28.1%. 3 Comments [Global & FX]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:29 PM Developed real estate ex- U.S. (WPS) continues to add to its sizable lead over domestic property (IYR, VNQ), with all of the outperformance coming since late July. The fund's largest holdings are concentrated in Asia - Japan, Hong Kong - with a bit of Australia and Europe thrown in. 1 Comment
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:09 PM Trailing U.S. real estate (IYR, VNQ) badly for much of the last month, the past few sessions have been especially good for developed real estate ex-U.S (WPS). On a YTD basis, WPS continues to outperform domestic property by about 600 basis points. Comment!
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 1:16 PM Price matters. Real estate funds have trumped all other categories of stock fund over the last 3 years, not because the underlying assets have great fundamentals, but because the class "was priced for bankruptcy" in 2009. Now the fundamentals are turning. Some favorites: VNQ, SPG, AVB, FNIO, ICF, IFGL. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Friday, June 29, 2012, 3:21 PM Real estate ex-U.S. outperformed U.S. real estate this month, WPS +4.9% (45 minutes before the close) vs. IYR and VNQ, each up about 2.5%. Over the last year though, it's not close, with U.S. real estate outperforming ex-U.S. by 1500 basis points or more (depending on the ETF), the divergence beginning last last fall. Comment!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 5:09 AM Morgan Stanley (MS) has reportedly had to return around $700M to investors in its flagship global real-estate fund, and has been forced to cut the fund's fees following lackluster performance. The concessions have persuaded investors to give the fund an extra year, until June 2013, to invest. Comment! [Financials]

FFR First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index ETF

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First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index ETF