Investing can often feel like gambling. Big bets, big risks, sometimes big wins, but more often steady losses. The only way to achieve lasting success is to truly tip the odds in your favor. To beat the dealer investors need to play the right game, and execute a proven strategy to near-perfection. The publicly traded…
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Evaluating REITs In 2020: Patience, Perspective, Opportunity
In our modern world of Zoom meetings, same-day delivery, twitter, and streaming video, it’s not surprising that many investors lack patience. If my e-mail inbox is any indication, within the last two months, investors have gone from petrified to chomping at the bit, ready to snap up bargains across every asset class. Investing, unfortunately, is…
Are REITs Cheap? A Brief Investigation…
In times of distress, it can be instructive to look forward and imagine how the current environment might be viewed retrospectively. Will 2020 be viewed as the year of the great March sell-off that was an incredible buying opportunity? Or will future generations remember the global pandemic that plunged the world economy into a synchronized…
REIT Performance Q1 2020: Swans, Shorts, SAFE
The black swan! The global pandemic! What an easy lazy comparison to modern times. “We could have never seen this coming!” Said every talking head in the financial media over the last 6 weeks. I’m not terribly interested in the black swan facet of Taleb’s philosophy right now. Besides he’s already come out and said…
Serenity Amidst Uncertainty: Risk-Managing The Current REIT Market
What a week. From 3/13/20 – 3/20/20 the MSCI US REIT index returned -25.5%, good for the worst week in the history of the modern REIT era (which began in 1990). No property type was spared, with data centers performing the best at -14.4%, while regional malls dropped -40%. This move came on the heels…