| The last decade has seen the emergence of REITs – real estate investment trusts. These trusts invest directly in real estate projects or companies and pass on their earnings to investors as dividends. Thanks to their structure, REITs offer the small investor a unique opportunity to invest in big ticket real estate projects and companies.
Consequently, REIT ETFs have become an important part of most long term investment portfolios. REIT ETFs are also very popular with retirement investment planning as they offer people with smaller portfolio sizes the opportunity to invest in real estate for the long term.............................................Full Article: Source
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