Real Estate Investment Trusts

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This paper examines three different types of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT). The author gives us an overview of investment trusts, their history, before explaining REITs and their significance in the world of investment. Hybrid REITs, Equity REITs and Mortgage REITs are contrasted and compared to demonstrate the differences, but more importantly, their similarities and how they can be used to gain advantages when managing investments are examined.

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"The first U.S. trusts based their own structures on British trusts, but were less well managed and less diversified and so as a result suffered badly in collapse of the stock market in 1929, which saw enormous losses in the investment trusts. After a period of confusion throughout the 1930s, strong survivors and new companies became widely accepted and grew rapidly under new federal regulation. The perils of unregulated trusts still echoes from the crash of 1929, however, with implications for today's REITs(http://www.investorlinks.com)."

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