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Japan's seniors develop yen for Reits to fight banks' paltry rates
Published Thu, Sep 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Tokyo
THIS summer, Japanese real estate investment trusts benefited from an unexpected group of net buyers for the first time in nearly seven years: mom and pop investors.
Encouraged by the relatively lucrative returns, an increasing number of retail investors are putting their money in some of 58 publicly-traded Reits tracked by the Tokyo Stock Exchange's gauge.
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