By guest contributor Ken Atchison, Principal, Atchison Consultants
Australian real estate investment trusts (AREITs), as represented by the S&P/ASX 200 REITs Index, returned -4.4%, underperforming the S&P/ASX 200 return of -2.0% over the month. Over the 12 months to December 2019, AREITs posted a total return of 19.4% (4.0% lower than the S&P/ASX 200 return of 23.4%). Sector Performance Table 1 below shows the performance of AREITs for various periods ending 31 December 2019. The medium-to-long-term performance...