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Columbia Threadneedle Investments Launches New Real Estate ETF
Columbia Threadneedle Investments has launched the Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF, which seeks to provide investors with a cost-effective way to access the real estate sector through a research-driven, modified market cap-weighted approach.
The ETF tracks the Beta Advantage Lionstone Research Enhanced REIT Index, which consists of 70-90 REITs across eight sectors and is designed to outperform the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index. The index weighting emphasizes income and geographic opportunity, addressing the top three reasons financial advisors allocate to real estate, as per a recent survey by Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
“Real estate has long played an important role in portfolio diversification, and there are many ways to access the asset class across the liquidity spectrum,” said Marc Zeitoun, head of Strategic Beta. “With the launch of CRED, we are offering investors and allocators a differentiated, research-driven way to improve their benchmark exposures to real estate.”
