Since 1926, dividends have provided nearly half of the S&P 500 returns. In today’s near-zero-interest-rate-world, income investors can’t afford to ignore the healthy yields that the REIT sector offers. In fact, the REIT investment class has outperformed every other asset class over the past 40-year period, generating a compound annual total return, through Dec. 31, 2014, of 12.83% versus 12.19% for the S&P. The average yield for the All Equity REIT Index is 3.56%, 78% greater than the 2%...
Since 1926, dividends have provided nearly half of the S&P 500 returns. In today’s near-zero-interest-rate-world, income investors can’t afford to ignore the healthy yields that the REIT sector offers. In fact, the REIT investment class has outperformed every other asset class over the past 40-year period, generating a compound annual total return, through Dec. 31, 2014, of 12.83% versus 12.19% for the S&P. The average yield for the All Equity REIT Index is 3.56%, 78% greater than the 2%...
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