Understanding the World of Share Classes Part One in a Four-Part Series on Share Classes From ABC to Z, the variety of share classes in the investment world seems to have proliferated across the entire alphabet. The differences in share classes really boil down to one thing: fees and expenses that provide compensation for those…
REIT Industry Update
March 1, 2016
Interactive Banking – How Digital Banking Will Affect Branch Bank Real Estate
Guest Blog - Written By Ira Bellinkoff ira@edgerealtyadvisors.com Banks are modernizing by embracing technology, providing more interactive customer experiences and conducting the same amount of work in a branch with a smaller footprint. Large, regional, and local banks are updating the traditional teller counter to provide a more self-service experience, opting instead for multiple kiosk-type stations…
August 7, 2015
Nontraded REIT Industry Review Q1 2015
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March 19, 2015
Traded REIT Premiums and Discounts to NAVs – Reading the Tea Leaves
Full-cycle events within the nontraded REIT sector provide interesting and potentially valuable insights. Whenever a nontraded REIT lists its shares on a public exchange, or merges with a listed company, the market valuation of its shares is revealed after years of reporting share prices based upon the original issue price or subsequent “NAV” reports based…
October 23, 2014
What’s MFFO and Why Should I Care?
In investing as in sports, a few people tend to focus on statistics while most don’t, but we all care about winning and losing. There are some numbers that reveal a lot about whether we’re winning or losing, and some numbers that only the “stats geeks,” or in the case of investing, the analysts, seem…
October 10, 2014
In a League of Their Own
Real estate cycles and the stock market do not move in lockstep with one another. And while there may be a few good reasons to use publicly traded REIT indexes as a comparison for nontraded REIT performance, the values of nontraded REITs are more closely tied to the real estate cycle. As a result, direct…
September 24, 2014
Blue Vault Questions Investment News Article
In the article written by Bruce Kelly of InvestmentNews on September 17, 2014, titled “Nontraded REITs stack up well compared with traded REITs,” he states that an August 2014 Green Street Advisors study is the “first to track nontraded REIT performance in comparison with their traded counterparts.” Unfortunately, Mr. Kelly forgot to check his facts…
August 7, 2014
Blue Vault LifeStages 101
When considering an investment in nontraded REITs, both investors and financial advisors need to be aware that these investment vehicles move through distinct developmental stages over time as they grow from inception to maturity. As a result, their performance characteristics more closely mirror those of direct property investments, private equity, and other illiquid vehicles. In…
Separating Fact from Fiction: A Rebuttal to Recent Articles Regarding Nontraded REIT Performance
In our opinion, recent articles and blog postings have presented a biased view of nontraded REIT performance. For example, in the June 15, 2014, Wall Street Journal article titled “Nontraded REITs are Hot, But Have Plenty of Critics” and in online blog posts by the Securities Litigation & Consulting Group, we believe the data fall…
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