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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...

When it comes to real estate stocks and the corresponding exchange-traded funds, income investors primarily focus on the yields being lobbed off by these securities and what the Federal Reserve is up to. Why? Because real estate equities are believed to be negatively correlated to rising interest...