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REITs Help Relieve Inflation Fears

According to Nareit.com (the worldwide membership organization for real estate companies), REIT dividends have outpaced inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index in all but two of the last twenty years. What's more, Nareit authors add, while real estate investment trusts have not proven to be the only inflation hedge, “their comparatively low correlation with other assets also makes them an excellent portfolio diversifier that can help reduce overall portfolio risk and increase returns.” To be sure, inflation is [...]

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REITs in a Rising Interest Rate Environment

Concerned that, as soon as interest rates start moving in an upward direction, any real estate-related investments you have will be slated to take a “hit”? ’Tain’t necessarily so, according to Alfred Galli in Seeking Alpha. He concludes that “on an historical basis, there is no strong correlation between rates and prices (of real estate).” Michael Orzano of S&P Dow Jones Indices admits there’s growing concern today about how REITs will perform “when interest rates ultimately rise from their [...]