Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF

CRED

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSE Arca: CRED) today announced that it will close, and its respective assets will be liquidated to shareholders, on or about July 29, 2026, as discussed below. The last date for authorized participants to transact in creation units of Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (the Liquidating ETF) will be July 24, 2026. The last day of trading in shares of the Liquidating ETF on the NYSE Arca exchange is expected to be July.

Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) screens U.S.

The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) pays a 3.64% distribution funded by the dividends of its underlying REITs, and that yield is the entire reason most income investors are looking at it.

Real estate has historically kept pace with inflation because landlords can raise rents as prices climb, passing cost increases directly to tenants.

The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF ( NYSE:CRED ) launched in April 2023 at exactly the wrong moment.

How many ETFs can you name that yield over 5% that don't involve covered call strategies?

The REIT sector continued to recover in June with a +1.12% average total return, but closed out the first half of the year in the red (-3.86%). Micro cap REITs (-3.79%) averaged a negative total return in June, but small caps (+1.01%), mid-caps (+2.29%) and large caps (+2.88%) finished in the black. 65.58% of REIT securities had a positive total return in June.

With a -4.27% average total return in April, REITs have now seen declines in 3 of the first 4 months of 2024. Micro caps (-2.71%) and small caps (-2.87%) averaged low single digit declines in April, while mid-caps (-5.36%) and large caps (-5.99%) performed even worse. 78.71% of REIT securities had a negative total return in April.

REITs bounced back from a rough start to the year with a strong +3.26% average total return in March. Mid cap (+5.04%), small cap (+3.90%) and large cap REITs (+2.32%) averaged gains in March, while micro caps (-0.32%) saw yet another month in the red. 78.06% of REIT securities had a positive total return in March.