http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/another-lazy-portfolio/ Helping you invest and prosper Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/another-lazy-portfolio/#comment-54778 A Tour of ETFs: iShares CDN REIT Sector Index Fund Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:53:03 +0000 http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/?p=236#comment-54778 [...] A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT is an asset class that allows you to get exposure to real estate in your portfolio. Real estate is an interesting asset class because historically it has offered a higher return than bonds (but less than equities) albeit at a higher risk (again less risk than equities). Also, real estate has low correlation with other asset classes and adding it to your portfolio will reduce overall volatility. An allocation of 5%-10% to REITs seems reasonable but some recommend going as high as 20%. [...] [...] A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT is an asset class that allows you to get exposure to real estate in your portfolio. Real estate is an interesting asset class because historically it has offered a higher return than bonds (but less than equities) albeit at a higher risk (again less risk than equities). Also, real estate has low correlation with other asset classes and adding it to your portfolio will reduce overall volatility. An allocation of 5%-10% to REITs seems reasonable but some recommend going as high as 20%. [...]

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