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| Subject: REITs A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (pronounced /?ri?t/) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. In return, REITs are required to distribute 90% of their income, which may be taxable, into the hands of the investors. The REIT structure was designed to provide a similar structure for investment in real estate as mutual funds provide for investment in stocks. The coming devaluation By John Schroy, on March 20th, 2009 |  Leave a comment  Real Estate Investment Trusts were beaten down by the Crash of 2008. However, in anticipation of an inflationary environment, we note that REITs are selling at significant discounts. This situation may present opportunities in an inflationary environment. However, REITs are tricky and risky. Investors should consider doing their own research when venturing in this market. March 20th, 2009 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Capital Market Wiki, closed end funds, Inflation, REITs, risk, Security Analysis, semantic wiki | Category: Inflation | Leave a comment |  Short urlQ1 2006 By John Schroy, on June 20th, 2006 | Leave a comment  In Q1 2006, the excess of US imports over exports continued to provide dollars to the rest of the world, which were invested in the US bond market. Although foreign central banks reduced flows into US treasuries and agencies after the high point of 2004, the shortfall has been more than covered by flows into bonds from foreign private sources. The driving force behind foreign purchases of US bonds is not so much related to interest rates as to worldwide neo-mercantilist impulses to favor exporters. June 20th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Asset-backed Securities, Bonds, Fannie Mae, Mercantilist Ideology, Mortgage-backed Securities, REITs, Stock Buybacks, US Treasury | Category: Foreign Investors | Leave a comment | Short urlBaby Boomers By John Schroy, on June 6th, 2006 | Leave a comment  The ‘Baby Boomer Bomb’ refers to the expected effect of the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation on capital markets, particularly equities. In 2006, this issue was debated at the Milken Institute, and two solutions to the problem examined: Boomers being ’saved’ by productivity and technology; and, alternatively, by selling their financial assets to the next generation. June 6th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: 401(k) plans, Africa, Alan Greenspan, Baby Boomers, China, common stock legend, deindustrialization, demographics, dividends, executive stock options, India, IRAs, Jeremy Siegel, Michael Milkin, Modern Portfolio Theory, Nobel prize in economics, productivity, REITs, Shanghai, trade unions | Category: Economic Theory | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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