Shares & Derivatives
Blog #21
By Managing Your Money  •  August 28, 2017
REITs offer a liquid alternative to physical property, both in terms of income and ease of transactions (buying and selling). After all, REITs already own a clutch of income-producing properties, the bulk of which are distributed to shareholders. And unlike physical properties, you can easily buy or sell shares of REITs on the stock exchange on any business day. In this blog, I intend to give you a historical perspective of the performance of Singapore REITs (S-REITs). While past returns do not guarantee similar returns in the future, we can’t ignore history either. My period of analysis is from August 2002 when the first S-REIT was listed on SGX through June 2017. a period of about 15 years. My data consists of monthly returns, inclusive of dividends reinvested. Here’s what I will present. First, I will show the performance of S-REITs versus that of property stocks and the overall stock market ......
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