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To: Greg Jung who wrote (68197)	9/24/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Read Replies (1) of 132070

Greg, Take a look at REITs. They have to pay out 95% of their net profits to shareholders in order to maintain their tax free corporate status. There was a provision in the now vetoed tax bill that would've changed it to 90%. I expect Congress to pass that in some other bill soon. That'll give them a big boost since it'll provide more funds from operations that management can use to expand. A goodly fraction of their payout is a return-of-capital which is not taxed as dividends. They have low betas (~0.3ish) and serve to diversify a portfolio into a different asset class. They're beaten down right now because they're not sexy techie thingies. Here's the one's I'm watching: finance.yahoo.com^rms&d=t

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