How To Front Run the New REIT Index
Brett Owens, Chief Investment StrategistUpdated: September 7, 2016
S&P’s new REIT index is officially live – but don’t worry, there’s still a way to front run it!
I’ll get to specific bargains in the sector shortly. First, let’s review the stocks that have already been bid up by investors and money managers looking for exposure to this newly celebrated sector.
Barron’s reported that investors have been using ETFs to invest in REITs, because most individual names – even the sector’s blue chips – aren’t well known by the first-level types.
I believe it, and they don’t need the “s” in ETFs, because the only REIT ETF anyone really knows or buys is the Vanguard REIT Index Fund (VNQ).… Read more