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What is a Hybrid REIT?
A Hybrid REIT blends the two major classes of REITs (Equity REITs and Mortgage REITs) to give the investor increased diversification with one investment.
A Hybrid REIT is a marketable security much like a mutual fund, invested in both Equity and Mortgage real estate investments. The equity part includes income-producing properties, in which the REIT company owns equity in the property.
The mortgage portion consists of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities, in which the REIT earns revenue from debt interest payments. REITs must distribute 90% of their revenue each year to their shareholders (in the form of dividends), and this makes them a high-yield income investment.
The tax burden is also distributed to the shareholders year to year, however, much like mutual funds. Shareholders can reinvest the distributions to take advantage of compound interest.
REITs give investors the opportunity to participate in real estate investments without the liquidity risks buy-in present in many other types of real estate investing.
What is alpha in investing?
Alpha is a risk ratio which measures gains or losses relative to a benchmark. Alpha and Beta are terms normally used in trading
What is Financial Liquidity?
Financial liquidity refers to the ease with which an asset can be converted to cash
What is an Accelerated Return Note (ARN)?
An accelerated return note (ARN) is an unsecured debt instrument that uses derivatives to offer leveraged return
What is absolute frequency?
In statistics, the number of times that a specific value shows up in a data set is the absolute frequency of that value
What are Bank Deposits?
Deposits are cash, checks, and electronic transfers that banking customers put into their personal or corporate banks
What is a Bank Reconciliation Statement?
Bank Reconciliation is the useful practice of comparing the records of the bank and a business's internal accounting
What is a Home Office?
Some people use the term “home office” to loosely refer to the fact that they work primarily from their home, while...
What is an Investment Center?
An investment center is an almost autonomous division of a company whose purpose is to generate returns on invested money
What is IRS Publication 521 on Moving Expenses?
Publication 521 details the methods and requirements for tax deductions related to moving expenses (job related move)
What is the Rectangle Top (Bullish) Pattern?
The Rectangle Top pattern forms when a currency pair price is stuck in a range bound motion, between support/resistance levels