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Top 10 U.S. Real Estate Sector ETFs
David Fry • Fri, May 10 • 2 Comments
Desperately Seeking Yield Through Equities Redux: Part 10 - The Issue Of Context
Philip Mause • Mon, Apr 8 • 13 Comments
Visualizing The Dynamics Of Diversification
Paul Allen • Fri, Apr 5 • 1 Comment
Is Student Transportation Steering Toward A Ditch?
Stephen Simpson • Thu, Mar 14 • 16 Comments
Can An Intelligent REIT Investor Over-Diversify?
Brad Thomas • Mon, Feb 11 • 98 Comments
If You Believe Housing Is For Real, This 6% Yield Play May Make Sense
Todd Campbell • Thu, Jan 3 • 7 Comments
Yield, Outperformance Attract Investors To Real Estate ETFs
Tom Lydon • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 1 Comment
The Fiscal Cliff: Stagflation Vs. Deflation
H.J. Huneycutt • Tue, Nov 27, 2012 • 29 Comments
The Illusion Of Causality Between Treasuries And REITs
Sholom Yaffa • Thu, Oct 18, 2012 • 4 Comments
Dividend, REIT And High-Yield ETFs For Income
Tom Lydon • Mon, Oct 8, 2012 • 1 Comment
ETFs To Buy On Outcome Of Election
Lawrence Carrel • Fri, Oct 5, 2012 • 1 Comment
Inflation Risks Are Rising: How To Invest In A Tricky Environment
H.J. Huneycutt • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 • 36 Comments
A Fatal Attraction To REIT ETFs
Brad Thomas • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 • 63 Comments
REIT Dividend Yields: New Low Rates Are Normal, But Not A 'New Normal'
Michael Terry • Mon, Sep 10, 2012 • 28 Comments
Battle Of The REIT ETFs: Part I
Michael Thomas • Tue, Sep 4, 2012 • 7 Comments
Finding Room for Income With Vanguard REIT ETF
Morningstar • Fri, Aug 31, 2012 • 6 Comments
Retail, Big Pharma, Regional Banks And REITs Are September's Best Bets
Todd Campbell • Tue, Aug 21, 2012 • 1 Comment
Utilities And Healthcare Remain The Best Sectors For Summer
Todd Campbell • Tue, Aug 7, 2012
Access Institutional Quality Management Through Multi-Asset ETFs
Tom Lydon • Fri, Jun 29, 2012 • 5 Comments
E-Trade All Star ETFs: A Myriad Of Low Cost And Popular Funds For Portfolio Building
MyPlanIQ • Thu, Jun 28, 2012

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REITs Take Control In April
Michael A. Gayed • Thu, Apr 26, 2012 • 7 Comments
How Much Longer Can REIT ETFs Play Leader?
Gary Gordon • Fri, May 14, 2010 • 2 Comments
ETF Spotlight: SPDR Dow Jones REIT
Tom Lydon • Thu, Sep 24, 2009 • 1 Comment
Testing Forward Looking Asset Allocation
Geoff Considine • Wed, Oct 22, 2008 • 13 Comments
Low Beta Strategies Cont'd: Taking the Differential on a REIT/Inverse Spread
Roger Nusbaum • Mon, Oct 16, 2006
Is there a global real estate ETF or index mutual fund?
Tom Coyne • Mon, Apr 18, 2005

Top 10 U.S. Real Estate Sector ETFs
David Fry • Fri, May 10 • 2 Comments
Desperately Seeking Yield Through Equities Redux: Part 10 - The Issue Of Context
Philip Mause • Mon, Apr 8 • 13 Comments
Visualizing The Dynamics Of Diversification
Paul Allen • Fri, Apr 5 • 1 Comment
Is Student Transportation Steering Toward A Ditch?
Stephen Simpson • Thu, Mar 14 • 16 Comments
Can An Intelligent REIT Investor Over-Diversify?
Brad Thomas • Mon, Feb 11 • 98 Comments
If You Believe Housing Is For Real, This 6% Yield Play May Make Sense
Todd Campbell • Thu, Jan 3 • 7 Comments
Yield, Outperformance Attract Investors To Real Estate ETFs
Tom Lydon • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 1 Comment
The Fiscal Cliff: Stagflation Vs. Deflation
H.J. Huneycutt • Tue, Nov 27, 2012 • 29 Comments
The Illusion Of Causality Between Treasuries And REITs
Sholom Yaffa • Thu, Oct 18, 2012 • 4 Comments
Dividend, REIT And High-Yield ETFs For Income
Tom Lydon • Mon, Oct 8, 2012 • 1 Comment
ETFs To Buy On Outcome Of Election
Lawrence Carrel • Fri, Oct 5, 2012 • 1 Comment
Inflation Risks Are Rising: How To Invest In A Tricky Environment
H.J. Huneycutt • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 • 36 Comments
A Fatal Attraction To REIT ETFs
Brad Thomas • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 • 63 Comments
REIT Dividend Yields: New Low Rates Are Normal, But Not A 'New Normal'
Michael Terry • Mon, Sep 10, 2012 • 28 Comments
Battle Of The REIT ETFs: Part I
Michael Thomas • Tue, Sep 4, 2012 • 7 Comments
Finding Room for Income With Vanguard REIT ETF
Morningstar • Fri, Aug 31, 2012 • 6 Comments
Retail, Big Pharma, Regional Banks And REITs Are September's Best Bets
Todd Campbell • Tue, Aug 21, 2012 • 1 Comment
Utilities And Healthcare Remain The Best Sectors For Summer
Todd Campbell • Tue, Aug 7, 2012
Access Institutional Quality Management Through Multi-Asset ETFs
Tom Lydon • Fri, Jun 29, 2012 • 5 Comments
E-Trade All Star ETFs: A Myriad Of Low Cost And Popular Funds For Portfolio Building
MyPlanIQ • Thu, Jun 28, 2012

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Weekend Investor: How to buy REITs in a crowded market

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ETF Adviser: 5 ways investors can beat the retirement bandits

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 14, 2012)
Money Talks: 5 money moves one supercycle fan is making

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 29, 2011)
Do Real Estate ETFs Know Something We Don't?: Hulbert

at CNBC.com (Jul 18, 2011)
REITs Could Have Another Good Year

at CNBC.com (Mar 14, 2011)
Financial Stocks: Bank stocks rise after economic data

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 28, 2011)
ETF Investing: M&A, strong earnings send REITs through the roof

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 30, 2011)
Financial Stocks: REITs rise on ProLogis-AMB deal talk

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 27, 2011)
Thursday's market action

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 27, 2011)
Financial Stocks: Wells Fargo leads financial sector to 1% gain

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 20, 2010)
Real estate ETFs are up 20% this year

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 17, 2010)
ETF Investing: Earnings reports could test REIT rally

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 1, 2010)
Commercial Real Estate's Death Knell May Have Been Premature

at CNBC.com (Jul 21, 2010)
Financial Stocks: Financials close higher on bank-overhaul deal

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 25, 2010)
Financial Stocks: Financial stocks close out tough month lower

at MarketWatch.com (May 28, 2010)

RWR vs. ETF Alternatives

RWR Description

The SPDR® Dow Jones REIT ETF, before expenses, seeks to match the returns and characteristics of the Dow Jones U.S. Select REIT IndexSM. Our approach is designed to provide portfolios with low portfolio turnover, accurate tracking, and lower costs.
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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Real Estate [REIT] ETFs
Asset Class Performance: Real Estate

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Thursday, January 24, 8:53 AM "(Commercial property) values are increasing but they're not running away," says Starwood (STWD) CEO Barry Sternlicht in an interview about the LNR purchase. He notes money is beginning to move out of fixed income into real property. This isn't news for major city centers, but Sternlicht says it's beginning to spill into "secondary cities." Comment! [Financials, U.S. Economy]
Friday, January 18, 10:59 AM More good news for housing: Household formation growth is back. After averaging more than 1M/year prior to the property bust, formations dropped to about 500K/year between 2008-10. The number bounced to 1.1M in 2011 and looks to have risen further last year. The gains are particularly felt in the rental market, and builders are obliging with a big jump in multi-family starts. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Tuesday, January 1, 1:40 PM For real-estate investors, the homebuilders ETF (XHB +55.6%) was the place to be in 2012. Retail (RTL +21.2%) outperformed residential (REZ +9.6%) and industrial (FIO -5.2%). Regionally, Asia real-estate (IFAS +39.4%) topped the list, followed by Europe (IFEU +24.5%) and the U.S. (RWR +13.3%). Full real-estate tables here. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 4:08 PM Norway's sovereign wealth fund is jumping into U.S. real estate, planning to invest about $11B of its $660B in "conservative" investments such as office complexes in major cities. The fund - just stocks and bonds at the moment - wants to have 5% of its assets in property. "The U.S. is the next real estate market to invest in," says fund management chief Yngve Slyngstad. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy, Global & FX]
Monday, November 26, 2012, 3:38 PM Focus on D.C. is preventing many from seeing the potential for housing - and by relation, employment - to deliver a big upside surprise in 2013, writes Jim Leaviss. If past patterns hold, the recent sharp decline in inventory should presage strong growth next year. Rising house prices removes a key psychological block from buyers - most prefer to buy into a clearly rising market. 1 Comment [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]
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 11:00 AM The seasonally-adjusted delinquency rate for 1-4 family homes fell18 bps to 7.40% in Q3, according to the MBA. The rate fell 59 bps on a Y/Y basis. The percentage of loans in some sort of delinquency fell to 11.71% from 12.63% a year ago. "A significant drop in the shadow inventory of distressed loans (is) a real positive for the housing market." (see Blackstone - buying up everything it sees). 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
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
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 8:39 AM More on September Housing Starts: Both starts and permits post their best numbers since the summer of 2008. August's gains are revised higher to +4.1% from +2.3%. As hoped, it appears housing starts are catching up to large previous gains in builder confidence. (see also) Comment! [U.S. Economy]
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!
Saturday, August 25, 2012, 10:00 AM Southern Co. (SO) and Verizon (VZ) may be the "poster children" among high dividend-payers as the quest for yield takes the utility (XLU), telecom (IXP), and consumer staples (XLP) sectors to frothy levels. The flip-side are health-care services (XHS), autos (CARZ), housing (IYR), and tech (XLK) - lower payers, but with relative valuations that have rarely been this cheap. 17 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 3:15 PM The 4.8% Q2 gain in Freddie Mac's House Price Index was the strongest print in 8 years, says Chief Economist Frank Nothaft. He casts doubt on the claim of a massive "shadow inventory" set to be unleashed on the market, noting sharp declines in both excess-for-rent and excess-for-sale inventory. Also, national figures are obscuring true tightness in many local markets. 7 Comments [U.S. Economy]
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]
Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 9:42 AM Blackstone (BX) gets into the residential landlord business, buying up $250M worth of foreclosed single-family homes with the intention of renting them out, according to sources. The firm joins what can now be called a mad rush of deep-pocketed investors trying to take single-family rentals out of the mom-and-pop category and into a major asset class. 24 Comments [Financials]
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, June 13, 2012, 1:19 PM Even with meaty yields, the dividend payout ratios for REITs remain very low, and thus very safe, says Fidelity's Sam Wald. Current low levels of supply mean economic growth does not have to be great for these companies to grow nicely, he adds. 1 Comment [Financials]

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