NEWS AND UPDATES
Quick Guide to Financial Wellbeing
3 simple steps that work for most people to get onto a path of success. Finance is about making your salary go further. Step 1: Pay off high-interest-rate debt Credit cards and most other debt, other than a low-cost home mortgage, come with onerous interest rates that...
RTR: Full Portfolio Review heading into 4Q25
This month’s update will focus on portfolio-level analysis and the process of the REIT total Return (RTR) portfolio. We also review performance at the end of each calendar quarter on a relative and absolute basis. The main concepts we would like to discuss today...
The State of REITs: October 2025 Edition
After a strong August, REITs faded slightly in September (-0.73%), pulling the REIT sector’s year-to-date average total return down to (-1.74%). Mid cap REITs (-0.92%) averaged the lowest total return in September. Large caps (-0.29%), micro caps (-0.79%) and small...
Recent Reads | Frostbite
Like most good cities, Madison sponsors an annual book festival. Last year’s program included fiction and non-fiction from local, national, and international authors, and my favorite event was the presentation by Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite.
Americold Gets Cheap Enough to be Interesting
Americold’s (COLD) stock price is down 65% in the last 5 years. This sort of move is unusual for a business that is so necessary and stable in the long-term sense of the word. In any short window of time, cold storage volumes have vicissitudes, but over any long...
Supply and Demand
The Law of Supply and Demand is a foundational principle of economics. As an example, consider that the supply of steel would be determined by the availability of iron (Fe) and the perceived demand for steel. The steel demand would, in part at least, be determined by...
Market Commentary | September 18, 2025
Resuming the Path to Lower Interest Rates After a seemingly interminable 9-month pause, on September 17th, Jerome Powell’s Central Bank cut the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. As real estate is considered one of the most interest rate-sensitive sectors, this is...
The State of REITs: September 2025 Edition
REITs performed very well in August (+5.48%), almost pulling the REIT sector’s year-to-date total return back into the black (-1.11%). Small cap (+7.52%) and mid cap REITs (+7.13%) averaged strong gains in August while large caps (+3.16%) and micro caps (+0.87%)...
Market Commentary | August 24, 2025
Potential Signs of a Value Renaissance Value and growth have bounced cyclically in and out of favor for the entire history of the stock market, often in unpredictable fashion. Outperformance of value or growth over the other varies in both duration and magnitude. ...
The State of REITs: August 2025 Edition
After a strong June (+2.56%), the REIT sector recovery stalled in July (-1.17%) as REITs fell to a -6.42% year-to-date return. Micro cap REITs (-0.20%) outperformed in July while mid caps (-1.18%), small caps (-1.33%) and large caps (-1.55%) averaged slightly deeper...