real estate

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  Purchasing Pools: The Brazilian Remedy to Ease America’s Credit Crunch

  By Juliana Molinari de Almeida Santos Cunha, Attorney, Sao Paulo Bar Association  |  May 17, 2013

  The Brazilian economy and legal system may offer the American middle class a way out of its credit access problem via the Brazilian “Purchasing Pool System.”

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  REIT Returns Are on a Roll

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  ETFs that track REITs are doing well, but aren't keeping pace with the markets as consistently as their indexes.

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  Low Interest Rates Wallop Retirees: EBRI

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  The low-interest-rate environment “has an extremely large impact on failure rates” when it comes to meeting retirement goals, EBRI's research director says.

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  U.S. Recovers as the World Watches: Schroders

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  U.S. investors are well acquainted with market uncertainty and the wobbly economic recovery, but they’ve got nothing on worried investors elsewhere in the world.

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  Baby Boomers Face New Retirement Realities

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  May 6, 2013

  Most Baby Boomers prefer peace of mind over wealth accumulation and are looking to reinvent themselves in retirement, according a Merrill Lynch study released Monday.

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  FINRA: BDs Have a Failure to Communicate on Nontraded REITs

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 6, 2013

  FINRA warned broker-dealers Friday that they were failing to properly communicate to investors the potential pitfalls of nontraded REITs.

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  Africa: Opportunity Beyond the S in BRICS

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 2, 2013

  Investors considering going a bit farther afield than EU countries, Japan and other developed markets might want to consider Africa—and not just South Africa.

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  Schwab’s Sonders: Middle America Is My Favorite Emerging Market

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2013

  "Someone asked me in a Q&A, 'What’s your favorite emerging market?’ and ‘Middle America’ was what came out of my mouth,” Sonders said at the FPA-New York annual summit.

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  Nontraded REITs: Friend or Foe?

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  April 29, 2013

  Nontraded REITs may be unsuitable for older investors because of their need for liquidity, but they have their defenders in today's booming real estate market.

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  Beware of Target-Date Funds

  By Ronald L. Delegge  |  April 29, 2013

  I think any financial advisor who recommends or sells a target-date fund is out of their mind. Almost one in four 401(k) participants invest solely in TDFs, yet flaws with these types of investments abound.