John Hood iShares Global Real Estate ETF CGR-T COMMENT Feb 16, 2016

REITs. Should pay you 5% over the year. If the price risk is higher than 1 or 2% then that is where you have to be careful. This one looks expensive but he thought that a year ago. It would be higher risk for new money. Prefers CBO-T right now.

He normally doesn’t follow this. One of his concerns with REITs is interest rates. If you like the real estate sector and you want to do it on a global basis; he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. This is something that he normally doesn’t follow.

Don’t go beyond your chosen percent weighting. The MER is .65%, which is quite high. It is concentrated into about 10 different REITs. We have had ultra low interest rates for a long time and REITs do well in this environment. It is trading at lofty prices right now. He would not want to add any more here.

This is not bad, in terms of the structure. The only thing is that fees are higher than some of the others. However not a bad one to play because it does give you diversification which he likes.

A REIT ETF? He prefers equal-weight, but consider global, CGR, which is exposed to 85 countries. XRE is a stand-by name for Canada. You can buy Canada but also hold CGR for diversity.