Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts is one of the most well established income generating strategies. MSCI US REIT Index aims to capture the performance of a portfolio of REITs that are listed in the US only.
There are numerous ways of slicing and dicing the industry either across assets classes like office, retail or industrial sectors or owning real estate across countries like investing in Japan REITs to gain exposure to Japanese real estate.
The index is float adjusted which means the weight of the REIT is adjusted based on the percentage of the company which is actually tradeable.
JPMorgan BetaBuilders MSCI US REIT ETF (BBRE) is the ETF which tracks the performance of the MSCI US REIT Index.
BBRE ETF is a passive index fund which means that the goal of the fund is to just replicate the performance of the index. In addition to the passive nature of the ETF it is a low cost fund where the annual management expense is only 0.11%.
MSCI US REIT Index
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