Lewis Braham: 7 Real Estate Stocks To Ride A Retail Comeback: (MGLAX)

Ted

FYI: You’d have to be a real contrarian to bet on shopping malls today. To many consumers used to the convenience of clicking “Buy,” the sentence “Let’s go to the mall” is a punchline—so much so that it became a running gag on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in which one character had a previous life as a Canadian pop star whose big hit was called “Let’s Go to the Mall.” The rest of the crew on the show viewed that as more embarrassing than acting in porn.

With such a cultural bias against malls as relics of a previrtual age, it’s little wonder that the average retail/mall real estate investment trust, or REIT, has only a 1% three-year annualized return—a fraction of Amazon.com’s(ticker: AMZN) gravity-defying 56%.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.barrons.com/articles/7-real-estate-stocks-to-ride-a-retail-comeback-1538128801

M* Snapshot MGLAX:
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/XNAS/MGLAX/quote.html

M* Snapshot MGLAX:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/mgalx

MGLAX Is Ranked #2 In The (G/RE) Fund Category By U.S. News & World Report:
https://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/global-real-estate/mfs-global-real-estate-fund/mglax

Old_Skeet

Being a retail investor, Old_Skeet's pick for a real estate fund is FRINX. Its no load share class (FRIFX) sports a yield of about 4.0%. The fund has been a steady producer within my portfolio for a good number of years. It's Morningstar report is linked below for both the no load and A share fund classes.

https://www.morningstar.com/funds/XNAS/FRIFX/quote.html

https://www.morningstar.com/funds/XNAS/FRINX/quote.html

And, no, I did not read the article as it was a subscription read only.