The Smart Investor\'s Guide for Investing: Sectors, Index Tracking, and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) After beating the broad market for seven years, REITs got clobbered in the first two months of 2007. Investors, fearful that problems in the residential mortgage industry would spill over to commercial real estate, sold off the industry group by 15%. That put REITs in correction territory. It’s easy now to buy REITs without digging through each company’s financial statements and driving around to visit their properties. There are several REIT index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that buy baskets of REITs. That’s a great deal because it reduces your risk of picking the wrong REIT and it also diversifies you geographically, giving you exposure to commercial property across the nation.

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