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Article: PROPERTY: The Reit stuff.
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- Money Marketing
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Andrew Jackson, manager of Standard Life Investments select property and global Reits funds on how Reits are opening up the property market by giving investors tax-efficient access to overseas deals
One of the questions exercising investors' minds is how best to include property in a balanced portfolio, given the strong inflation-hedging characteristics offered over the medium to long term.
Property cycles are positively correlated with economic cycles, meaning that property investments tend to perform well when economic conditions are positive.
This feature is driving a number of property markets, particularly some of the Asian markets ...