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Welcome to Investing Insights. I'm your host, Ivana Hampton. The struggle of brick and mortar

real estate has extended into investment portfolios. Elevated inflation and high interest rates have

weighed on the real estate sector over the past few years. And real estate investment trust or

REITs have not been spared. Yet these exchange traded funds are popular among income investors.

They can generate cash and can help diversify a portfolio. So where do they fit in

yours? And which REITs do Morning Star analysts consider top picks? Dan Seteeroff is an associate

director of U.S. Passer Strategies for Morningstar. Dan is also the editor of Morningstar's

ETF investor newsletter. Thanks for joining me, Dan.

You're welcome.

Good to be here.

Let's start with an explainer.

What is a real estate investment trust ETF or REITF and how do they work?

Right.

So you got the acronym right.

Reed is just an acronym for real estate investment trust.

The way to think about these is these are in the context of READ ETF.

They are publicly traded

companies that invest, operate, finance, real estate.

So they have some exposure to like an underlying property.

And that can run a wide range of different properties.

So it could be things like shopping malls, office centers.

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