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High-Yielding Health Care REIT Ventas Has Upward Guidance Helped By Acquisition
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 7:30am | 477Read More...How often are the words "retirement," "holiday" and "make money" used in the same sentence? Great news for shareholders of leading health care REIT Ventas (NYSE: VTR) -- which can do so at the next cocktail party, or anytime they want to impress friends and family...
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KKR Moves Into Australia While Apollo Global Shares Move 'Down Under'
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 8:38am | 448Read More...Bigger Picture: Shares Of Apollo Global Management Continue Slide On Downgrade Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) is the largest alternative asset management firm, by AUM, and currently has more than $80 billion of real estate assets under management worldwide. On August 15, 2014, Wells Fargo...
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Jaguar Range Rover Drives Prologis U.K. Expansion
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 7:58am | 534Read More...How great would it be to own 10,000 acres of land strategically located near key ports of entry around the globe? Shareholders in industrial REIT giant Prologis (NYSE: PLD) own an interest in all of that land slated for future expansion and much, much more. On August 18, 2014, Prologis...
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REIT Recap For August 18, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 8:32am | 483Read More...Analysts Upgrades/Downgrades: Jefferies upgraded Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) from Underperform to Hold and raises price target to from $55 to $62 per share, which is seven percent below Monday's closing price of $66.70. Jefferies downgraded Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT)...
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Morgan Stanley, MLV & Co. Comment On REITs Amid Prior Week's Results
Monday, July 14, 2014 - 3:53pm | 142Read More...Morgan Stanley and MLV & Co. on Monday morning released reports on last week's performance of the REIT sector. Overall the results were good. According to MLV, the RMZ beat the S&P 500 by 1.9 percent. Last week's winning sector was student housing, which was up 2.3 percent. On...
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Risks Associated With Tapping Home Equity To Buy Stocks
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 11:38am | 1296Read More...Having sprouted some gray hairs and lost more than a few others, most of us have heard some bad advice in our lifetime. Always bet the favorite. Go all in with Ace-King. Never eat at a place called 'Mom's.' Buy stocks because they return 10 percent a year. Get a real job. Use managed futures to...
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Twelve ETFs Trading Near 52-Week Highs
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 6:56am | 874Read More...First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX (NYSE: FXG) is up more than 20% year to date. The investment seeks results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the StrataQuant Consumer Staples Index. Top holdings include Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR),...
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Wunderlich Securities Provides Color on REITs
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 6:24am | 174Read More...Wunderlich Securities provided color on REITs. In a research report published today, Wunderlich speculated about the changes Financial Accounting Standards Board might make when it issues its report in June. In the report, Wunderlich states, "We believe one key provision would require an...
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Perfect time to start accumulating REITs? (AGNC, CIM, HTS)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 10:17am | 357Read More...One of the most important gifts Warren Buffet has given the investing world is a single maxim: "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Unfortunately, all too many of us think we're smarter than one of the most successful investors of all time and we do exactly the...
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Commercial Real Estate Week in Review
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 6:00am | 487Read More...Commercial Real Estate Week in Review-June 13-19 -Interested in a long term investment? It may be the time to get into REITs. -Sunway REIT on track for $522MM IPO. -Kimco Realty (NYSE: KIM) and Big Shopping Centers (NYSE: BIG) enter into a joint venture to purchase $422MM retail...
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Investing in Real Estate: REITs and ETFs
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 6:00am | 1160Read More...Can you trade real estate just like this guy trades securities? Of course, but let’s face it. Investing effectively in actual real estate is tough. A few reasons why are that real estate tends to be illiquid, and is usually rather expensive (at least in comparison to other...
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Upcoming IPO Profile: Terreno Realty Corp. (NYSE:TRNO)
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 5:40pm | 194Read More...Look for real estate trust Terreno Realty Corp. (NYSE:TRNO) to be trading on the NYSE sometime in the coming week. Although the four-character ticker would be an unusual allowance from the exchange's overseers, as it stands right now, that indeed will be the ticker barring any changes within the...
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Big Yields, and Getting Bigger - Capstead Mortgage (CMO)
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:44am | 195Read More...Seeing a dividend yield of 15.7% is unusual. Seeing a dividend yield of 15.7% that the company can actually afford to pay is almost unheard of. That's what makes Capstead Mortgage Corp. (CMO) such a curious idea.... the payout is actually reliable now that the mortgage industry is pulling itself...
