The Best Performing Asset Class This Decade? It's REITs HANDS DOWN

Which is the best performing asset class this year? If you include the whole universe of investable assets, gold wins the race but if you look at equities and fixed income it’s real estate that has been the best performing asset class this year.

Analysts over at Source Multi Asset Research highlight that year-to-date, real estate (the FTSE EPRA NAREIT index) has been the best performing global asset with a USD total return of 12.6%. Within the US the return is 16.5%, which beats equities, Treasuries and credit, (but be careful with the type of REITs you are buying).

Note – Josh Brown of The Reformed Broker has a great post on the danger of some REITs – check it...