Bad News For REITs, Good News For High Income Investors

Nov. 25, 2024 9:15 AM ET, , , , , , , , , , , , , 41 Comments
Roberts Berzins, CFA
9.69K Followers
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Summary

  • Many of us expected REITs to explode higher when the Fed would start to decrease interest rates.
  • Rising long-term yields have quite quickly destroyed these expectations.
  • In this article, I describe two indicators, which imply elevated risks for REITs. In my view, the risks are high for REITs to decline.
  • Yet, in this environment, there are some decent opportunities for high income investors to lock in decent yields at limited risk.

Good and bad news

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To do well in investing, investors have to sometimes take counterintuitive steps. This involves buying assets, when they go (or have gone) down, which almost per definition implies going long during periods of relatively high uncertainty.

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Roberts Berzins has over a decade of experience in the financial management helping top-tier corporates shape their financial strategies and execute large-scale financings. He has also made significant efforts to institutionalize REIT framework in Latvia to boost the liquidity of pan-Baltic capital markets. Other policy-level work includes the development of national SOE financing guidelines and framework for channeling private capital into affordable housing stock. Roberts is a CFA Charterholder, ESG investing certificate holder, has had an internship in Chicago board of trade (albeit, being resident and living in Latvia), and is actively involved in "thought-leadership" activities to support the development of pan-Baltic capital markets.

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