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Daily Brief ESG: Aiming for REITs with Lower Downside Risk and Expectations of Higher Shareholder Returns? and more

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  • Aiming for REITs with Lower Downside Risk and Expectations of Higher Shareholder Returns?


Aiming for REITs with Lower Downside Risk and Expectations of Higher Shareholder Returns?

By Aki Matsumoto

  • REITs, whose main players are regional banks that invest as a bond alternative, tend to stop their market decline when the spread with JGB yields approaches 400 basis points.
  • While there is certainly room for REITs to strengthen shareholder returns, the possibility that domestic investors may want stable dividends cannot be denied.
  • Other activist investors are watching with interest to see if the shareholder activism approach works in REITs as well, but the main battleground is still listed equities.

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