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Should you buy REITs based on a "Good" Sponsor ?
By Growing your tree of prosperity  •  December 16, 2018
This started because a student felt uncomfortable with the portfolio of REITs selected by one of my better REIT screeners. He examined the list of REITs proposed by the stock screener and said that my portfolio contained REITs with "weak" sponsors. Separately I've been told on other occasions that investors should simply invest in REITs with good sponsors. Of course, these conversations seldom delve into how to actually determine what a good REIT sponsor is. I've always felt uneasy about investment strategies like this - an intellectually dishonest investor can simply define a REIT sponsor as a good one if the REIT has performed well historically, otherwise the REIT sponsor cannot possibly be a good one. This is tautological reasoning and useless to serious investors. So yesterday, I went back to the library during my break to get this out of my chest once and for all. For the purposes ...
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By Growing your tree of prosperity
I have recently completed my Juris Doctor and I am waiting to be called by the Singapore Bar. For the past 15 years I was an IT manager and I have worked in multinationals, financial exchanges, trade unions and even a government agency. I started my career as an AS/400 administrator and moved on to manage IT projects and operations
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