The Daily Screen: The Best Real Estate Funds
Ah, real estate funds -- your chance to own a little corner of the world and hide from the market's tempest.
The key selling points of real estate funds, the focus of today's Daily Screen, is that they can be a good diversification tool because they have low correlation with the S&P 500 
and they also provide you with a steady income stream. We'll comb through the category for funds with solid track records, but first things first: What are real estate funds and what do they buy?
Real estate funds typically invest in real estate investment trusts or REITs. A REIT is a company that owns a collection of properties and earns most of its income from leases. Like many stocks, REITs need a healthy economy to flourish, but because they don't earn their money from products and services, they don't tend to move in tandem with stocks. (For more on the real-estate sector, check out the latest Analysts Rankings item on REITs: Beneficiaries of the Tech Meltdown.) ...
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