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The sharp rise in long bond yields from 1.5% at the beginning of the year to 3.6% in June continued to create headwinds for long-duration assets such as REITs. The...

Inflation has become the big bad wolf for modern income investors, but it doesn’t need to be. Does it create extra challenges? Of course, but to be fair, all points of...

Do you know why Australian house and apartment prices are so high? If you think it’s largely down to any of the following reasons, you’d better think again, says Chris...

With the clock ticking over to 2022, the world will have endured two years of COVID-19. But despite the well-documented challenges, 2021 was a successful year for...

The majority of Australian listed companies report their financial results in February and August. It is common during these ‘reporting seasons’ for trends to emerge...

The outbreak of COVID-19 had a cataclysmic impact on the global economy, with the governments of first world countries injecting populations with fiscal stimulus and...

Prompted by some less than ideal M&A transactions, we feel it necessary to highlight a disappointing recent trend in the Australian REIT market: the return of...

In the heart of London, SW1 the Zig Zag building seems to have been carved from the surrounding towers like a scene from Christopher Nolan’s Inception. The building,...

The real estate investment trust sector is not a traditional hunting ground for the Montgomery Small Companies Fund. REITs tend to be passive asset owners or rent...

One of the key areas of focus during March was the strength of the residential market. What a difference six months has made! Back in September 2020, market...

The sharp rise in bond rates from below 1% at the end of last year to now 1.7% caused a sell-off in yield-sensitive sectors such as REITs. Consistent with market...

The atmosphere across global markets is electric, and no this isn't a pun on EV's popularity. Rising exuberance across several sectors has been fuelled, rather than...

COVID-19 has caused havoc in the REIT sector with economic shutdowns, rent relief and concerns about behavioural changes (structural shifts) weighing heavily on the...

COVID-19 battered retail real estate names as tenants were forced into lockdown and activity was halted. It also compressed social trends that ordinarily would have...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 market sell-off Roger’s idea of keeping our spirits up was to play the Carpenter’s “We’ve only just begun.” Bear Heaven. Apologies if...

Now that governments are talking about re-opening the economy, investors can start thinking about the businesses that might provide the best returns as we emerge from...

With capital cheap and plentiful, ‘buy now, pay later’ seems an eminently logical strategy. But will it prove sustainable when the time comes to pay? Or is the...

As our crammed buses, ailing trains and clogged roads suggest, Australian cities have failed to invest at a rate consistent with our population growth. In 1998, Sydney...

The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector – previously called the Listed Property Trust sector – has always been a popular sector with Australian retail investors...

The global economy continues to show trending improvement in growth, especially in developed countries where we are seeing the strongest, most consistent growth since...