The plan: offer investment products across 3 segments including realty, traditional asset management and private equity.

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This defensively-aligned REIT has maintained a remarkable track record of risk control and that skilled and sophisticated risk-management strategy has made Realty Income the mark of a superior dividend operation (Realty Income current dividend is 5.4%).

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More recently, all four publicly traded data-center REITs took a tumble after hedge-fund manager Jonathon Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, raised questions earlier this month about how Digital Realty accounts for certain capital expenditures, while warning of rising competition.

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Among the largest underlying components of IYR, in trading today Vornado Realty Trust ( VNO) is down about 0.1%, and Annaly Capital Management Incorporated ( NLY) is up by about 0.9%.

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Among the largest underlying components of IYR, in trading today Annaly Capital Management ( NYSE: NLY) is off about 2.7%, Vornado Realty Trust ( NYSE: VNO) is up about 0.1%, and Boston Properties ( NYSE: BXP) is up by about 0.3%.

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First Potomac Realty Trust (FPO) is a Maryland-based REIT engaged in the acquisition, development and management of industrial and office properties in the Washington, D.

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