Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) just had a very bad week. Many popular REITs (such as HCP, DLR, WELL and VTR) were down more than 7%, while the S&P 500 was up almost 1%. And importantly, there are a few real time learning opportunities here. Chicken little thinks the sky is falling, arm-chair quarterbacks are blaming the Fed, contrarians says this was long overdue, and asset allocators are whining that these are just tremors before the “big one” whereby the market’s tectonic plates are about to shift. So what do you do?
Fighting Risk Creep: Are You Ready for 2018?
“When the markets are good, like the current long running bull market… we must all fight risk creep in the portfolio.” That’s according to a recent LinkedIn note from Blue Harbinger friend, Brian Coker, CFA. It’s also a good segue into the topic of this week’s Blue Harbinger Weekly: High-Level Risks and Opportunities for 2018.