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Real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the relevant exchange-traded funds have been in the spotlight for much of this year, and much of that attention has been positive. With the Federal Reserve laying off on boosting interest rates, income investors have had plenty of reasons to embrace REIT...

As has been widely documented, real estate will become the eleventh GICS sector at the end of this month, separating from financial services. It's Almost Here, And Analysts Are Ready It is believed the news, widely known since index providers Standard & Poor's and MSCI made the announcement...

ProShares, the largest issuer of inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds, is making changes to some its ETFs ahead of the separation of real estate into its own sector at the end of August. Real Estate Separation In 2014 index providers MSCI and Standard & Poor's announced that real...

With assistance from investor's seemingly unquenchable thirst for income and the Federal Reserve's refusal to raise interest rates to this point in 2016, this has been a banner year for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the corresponding exchange-traded funds. For example, the...

Underscoring the strength of real estate investment trusts (REITs) this year and the corresponding exchange-traded funds, eight such ETFs hit all-time highs Tuesday. In November 2014, the S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI, two of the largest providers of benchmarks for exchange-traded funds, said...

As has been previously highlighted in this space, the real estate group will become the eleventh S&P 500 sector at the end of August, separating from financial services. That means changes are afoot for the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), the largest exchange-traded fund...

This year has been a perfect storm for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the corresponding exchange-traded funds. Not only has the Federal Reserve passed on raising interest rates to this point in the year, but real estate will become the eleventh GICS sector at the end of August, providing...

As has been widely documented, real estate stocks will become their own sector, separating from the financial services group, at the end of August. Initially, that announcement made in 2014, was thought to have a looming impact on the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF). XLF, the largest...