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National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2003
Susan Cheng |
Time to revamp `insider boards' Is the fate of corporate giants like WorldCom and Tyco looming at the door of some real estate investment trusts across the nation?   |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004 |
Meeting Higher Standards In my view, we have two key requirements that REITs must meet. First, we must ensure that the financial statements of publicly traded real estate companies are comparable to the rest of corporate America. Second, it is vital that financial reporting be consistent among all companies in our industry. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2003
Darlene Bremer |
Quantity vs. Quality Public companies face strict mandates to disclose more financial information on a timelier basis, but can too much disclosure diminish its value to investors? |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
William D. Sanders |
Working Toward Improved Disclosure Every publicly traded real estate company shares the responsibility to provide clear, transparent financial information to investors... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2004
Phillip Britt |
The Price of Being Public How small-cap REITs are handling the financial squeeze from Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Courtney Darby |
Changing With the Times REITs have evolved successfully while staying true to their charter, and yet still are primed to grow in the future. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2004
Michele Lerner |
Playing By The Rules REIT experts agree that while all publicly traded companies, including REITs, have been somewhat impacted by the changes on Wall Street, REITs are not expected to suffer in particular. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2000
Yungmann & Taube |
Operating Performance Reporting Over the past year, NAREIT members have re-evaluated the effectiveness of the real estate investment trust industry's supplemental performance measure---Funds From Operations (FFO)... |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
Yungmann & Taube |
FFO: Earnings or Cash Flow? In 1991, funds from operations (FFO) was defined by NAREIT and became widely used by the industry. Users of the industry's financial statements have accepted FFO as a starting point from which to analyze the historical, as well as prospective profitability and value of companies... |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Scott Farb |
Public vs. Private REITs Here is an in-depth look at the realities of REITs themselves and the economics of a potential investment. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2007
Charles Keenan |
Pillars of Good Governance REIT corporate governance is among the best in the United States and boards across the industry remain highly focused on corporate performance and strategy. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2004
Scott Farb |
The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2005 |
REITs and FFOs REITs may deserve a spot in your portfolio. Learn more. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2008
Allen Kenney |
Choices, Choices, Choices Investors have more ways to buy and sell real estate than ever before. Read on about some of these new choices. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2005 |
Forty-Five @ 45 To commemorate the way REITs have changed the face of real estate investment, here are highlights of the milestones, key events and accomplishments that shaped the past 45 years and will help chart the course for the next 45. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Steve Bergsman |
The Business of REITs REITs have ripened with age, thanks in no small part to the industry's management teams, and investors share in the fruits of their labor. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
Understanding Funds From Operations Investors often ignore or misunderstand real estate investment trusts because the methods used to evaluate their performance are often very different from the ways that investors analyze other companies. What exactly is the FFO number that many REITs provide? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2001
Tom Kirtland |
Investors Can Only Value What They See If REIT shares are undervalued, it is partly because the information investors receive through corporate reports has become less relevant in terms of what is needed to make a proper assessment... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2002
Chris De Reza |
Keeping an Eye on Insurance Over the past year, rising insurance premiums, reduced capacity and increasingly restrictive coverage have pushed insurance to the forefront for many participants in, and observers of, the real estate industry. |
CFO
March 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
Nonplussed by Non-GAAP CFOs are dismayed and discouraged by the SEC's approach to non-GAAP reporting. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2006
M. Jason Mattox |
Know Your REITs In today's market not all real estate investment trusts are the same. When working with publicly traded or private REITs, real estate professionals must keep the public or private nature of the entity in mind. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 10, 2003 |
Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Portal & Hilzenrath |
New SEC Proposed Guidelines to Give Investors a Clear View at Executive Compensation REITs should conduct a thorough review of current compensation policies and practices and evaluate them in light of the new disclosure proposals. For some REITs, a complete overhaul of the compensation program may be necessary. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with David M. Blitzer, Ph.D. David M. Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, shares his thoughts on the capital markets and the inclusion of REITs in the S&P 500. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2004
Jon Fosheim |
A Corporate Governance Report Card We often heard that REITs had worse corporate governance relative to other public companies. Despite all of the numerous shortcomings we found in the publicly traded REIT sector, we found no evidence that REITs were any worse than other sectors. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2001
Anna Chason |
Regulation Fair Disclosure: Walking the High Wire Investor relations have been described as a fencing match conducted on a tightrope. In providing information to investors and analysts, corporate officers must carefully negotiate the "high wire" and provide full information while avoiding "selective disclosures"... |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
David Worrell |
Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2002
Steve Bergsman |
Direct Effect As the focus on corporate governance issues intensifies, real estate companies will need to ensure that board composition and practices keep pace with rapid changes at all publicly traded companies. |
Financial Advisor
June 2010
Gail Liberman |
Private REIT Explosion Regulators are concerned that too many retirees searching for higher dividends may be investing without understanding the risks. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2008
Ryan Chittum |
Building Potential Non-traded REITs, cousins of publicly traded REITs, are a growing trend in the real estate investment industry. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 20, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Study: Compensation for REIT Board Members Up 25% It pays to be a real estate investment trust (REIT) board member these days. REIT board member compensation has increased 25% over the last decade, according to a study by New Jersey-based real estate consultant Schonbraun Safris McCann Bekritsky & Co. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2003
Matt Valley Editor |
Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2003
Steven Roth |
In the Spotlight Once little known, REITs have earned an increasingly prominent role on the financial stage. And the unique ability to own real estate in a liquid, securitized form while receiving dividends and growth will keep them in the spotlight. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
The Big Board: Crying Out for Regulation The Grasso pay debacle means the SEC should supervise the NYSE. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2007
Allen Kenney |
REIT Breakthrough Recent research details stronger returns through indirect real estate investment. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002 |
GAAP Net Income Measures Up Investors trying to decipher the key metric for measuring real estate companies got a hand recently from NAREIT's Board of Governors, which took a step affirming net income computed under generally accepted accounting principles as the primary earnings measure for real estate companies. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
Steve Bergsman |
Independent Voice Four independent directors share their thoughts on joining the REIT industry, making the time commitment and dealing with stricter governance standards. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2005
Matt Valley |
Is Sarbanes-Oxley worth the pain and suffering? A year ago in this column, I predicted that the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act (SOX) would be a big story for the REIT world and beyond in 2004. The evidence suggests that I was correct. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2007
Art Coppola |
REITs' Investment Proposition The REIT story is singular in the investment marketplace. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2006
Jason Mattox |
Reclassifying REITs Knowing the different REIT structures and types helps experts make good investment decisions. |
OCC Bulletin
June 26, 2003 |
Securities Offering Disclosure Rules Reporting and disclosure requirements for National Banks with securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
You Should Look Into U-Store-It The self-storage REIT's experienced new management team could turn the ship around. Investors, is it time for further research? |
Investment Advisor
June 1, 2011
Danielle Andrus |
POINT: Non-Traded REITs -- A Stability Play Non-traded REITs may have limited liquidity, but they provide more stability than their publicly traded counterparts |
InternetNews
August 29, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Work Remains for Sarbox Compliance Businesses have a lot of work ahead of them before they're fully compliant with federal data retention and financial reporting rules under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a new study concludes. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
The Investment Landscape Martin Cohen of Cohen & Steers and Jim Keagy of Barclays Global Investors comment on the strong run the REIT equity market has been on and where REITs as an investment alternative are heading. |
