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First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX (NYSE: FXG) is up more than 20% year to date. The investment seeks results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the StrataQuant Consumer Staples Index. Top holdings include Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR),...

Wunderlich Securities provided color on REITs. In a research report published today, Wunderlich speculated about the changes Financial Accounting Standards Board might make when it issues its report in June. In the report, Wunderlich states, "We believe one key provision would require an...

One of the most important gifts Warren Buffet has given the investing world is a single maxim: "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Unfortunately, all too many of us think we're smarter than one of the most successful investors of all time and we do exactly the...

Commercial Real Estate Week in Review-June 13-19 -Interested in a long term investment? It may be the time to get into REITs. -Sunway REIT on track for $522MM IPO. -Kimco Realty (NYSE: KIM) and Big Shopping Centers (NYSE: BIG) enter into a joint venture to purchase $422MM retail...

Can you trade real estate just like this guy trades securities? Of course, but let’s face it. Investing effectively in actual real estate is tough. A few reasons why are that real estate tends to be illiquid, and is usually rather expensive (at least in comparison to other...

Look for real estate trust Terreno Realty Corp. (NYSE:TRNO) to be trading on the NYSE sometime in the coming week. Although the four-character ticker would be an unusual allowance from the exchange's overseers, as it stands right now, that indeed will be the ticker barring any changes within the...

Seeing a dividend yield of 15.7% is unusual. Seeing a dividend yield of 15.7% that the company can actually afford to pay is almost unheard of. That's what makes Capstead Mortgage Corp. (CMO) such a curious idea.... the payout is actually reliable now that the mortgage industry is pulling itself...