03/2019
S-REIT investors earned a handsome yield of between 4.5% and 9.4% a year in dividends (paid out quarterly or every 6 months) last year despite 2018 being a bad year for S-REITS, down 9.146%.
How is it possible for yields to consistently be so high though? It’s because REITs are required by law to redistribute at least 90% of their taxable income each year i.e. pay it out in dividends. This make S-REITS investments very popular with investors who are looking to generate a steady passive income and those who are looking to invest their pension income.
In addition, S-REITs help diversify one’s investment portfolio. Because real estate values don’t generally correlate to stock prices, stock prices and real estate values can move together or in completely opposite directions. Unless a real estate slump triggers a financial crisis or vice versa, a portfolio that contains both stock and real estate holdings may provide a high level of protection over market slumps.
For example, Office REITS hog the Best Performing S-REITS in 2017 with Capitacomm Trust (now known as Capitaland Commercial Trust), Suntec REIT and Keppel REIT being the Top, 2nd and 8th Best Performing 2017 REITS. Incorporating embedded dividends of 5%, investors of Capitacomm Trust and Suntec REIT would have notched up a whopping 35% return! It is indeed rare for Singapore stocks to be able to deliver such handsome return in a single year!
Many of our UHNI and HNI investor students (we have a healthy 6,000 student base from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia from our 3 decades of education and lecturing) find that REITS allow you to own real estate, the most conservative asset-class for the Asian Rich without the costs and hassles associated with real estate investing. You don’t have to find and research properties — the REIT’s managers do that for you. You basically have to find the best REITS to invest at the best price or find the worst REITS selling at the worst price to take opportunistic trading positions.
While we at GCP Global, update our students on such opportunities in our Quarterly REITS and REITS Masterclasses.
Therefore, in our classes, we have told our students to book-in their too-perfect returns in Office REITS from 2018 in early-2018 and indeed all Office REITS suffered negative returns in 2018 subsequently. Then in late-2018, it was really a no-brainer to reposition in Office REITS again as they found a new bottom.
REITs are more liquid than typical real estate investments. Instead of selling the property to cash out, you simply sell your shares. Many REIT shares have become ripe for trading with more quantitative funds and day trader’s participation which have in-turn paved the way for seeking opportunistic positions as several famous funds have hired us to tech and share with their proprietary trading desks.
Many investors like REITs for the (more or less) steady recurring income, similar to how bonds pay out coupons consistently. But events in the past 3 years have actually brought out the other great aspect of S-REITS – it can be very profitable for trading.
For example, in our various investments talks and REITS Symposium & Investors Meet on 8 December 2018, we highlighted Sasseur REIT as an Opportunistic Trade at 64 cents and below as –
1. Price would be 20% or more below the IPO price of 80 cents which would have discounted most of the bad news and bottlenecks regarding the stock.
2. We were confident that Sasseur Reit would post good 4Q2017 results.
3. We had been in-touch with Mr. Vito Xu, the founder of both the Sponsor and Sasseur Group to understand the directions of Sasseur REIT.
As our article goes into hot press this week, Sasseur REIT share price has risen a whopping 20% to 77 cents and above.
The rate of climb in 2 months is just too fast and rapid, certainly ripe for profit-taking.
So, what does the smart investor do after reaping in the profits as most Class A REITS like those under Capitaland, Ascendas and Mapletree have risen? Perhaps, another good Opportunistic Trade lies in our next upcoming First REIT Symposium & Investors Meet on 9 March 2019 at the Marina Mandarin Singapore.
Uncovering the true value of First REIT entails clarifying most of the unfounded rumors circulating in online forums and fears of traders/investors with conjecture surrounding the actions or future actions of its Sponsor as the REIT has proven to be well-run in the past decade.
At GCP Global, we seek the best REIT trades/investments for our investor students by addressing all problems regarding a REIT and sharing our illuminating insights to help you reap in the profits. Do JOIN us at Marina Mandarin Singapore on 9 March 2019.
https://gcpglobalsg.wixsite.com/gcpglobal/events-1/first-reit-symposium-investors-meet-2019
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