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Japan REITs

Japanese REITs are listed real estate investments that pay high dividends and pass through their rental income to investors. They can be viewed as a hybrid between equities and bonds as they must pay out most of the income received.

Strategy Description

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” Japanese REITs are listed real estate investments that pay high dividends and pass through their rental income to investors. They can be viewed as a hybrid between equities and bonds as they must pay out most of the income received.

Real estate, by its very nature of being a physical and limited asset provides potential inflation protection for investors.  REITs benefit from inflation in 2 ways:

  • Capital appreciation the value of properties and land owned increases
  • Rent increases regularly negotiated leases can be increased in line with inflation

The portfolio targets Japanese exposure offering a wide variety of sub sectors in real estate.

We score ~1,000 real estate names on Value, Quality, Safety, Payout, Technical and Sentiment characteristics to build a portfolio that targets a yield upwards of 3% per year. This robust quantitative scoring process ensures lesser-known but still excellent real estate companies are included.

International investors can also access this strategy in a Global Exposure and a US Exposure

PrintFact Sheet

Portfolio Performance

20192020202120222023YTD
Portfolio (%)31.47-12.0817.16-7.213.376.06
Annualized ReturnStandard DeviationDividend Yield
Portfolio11.35%22.52%4.2%

Allocation Breakdown

Asset Class


Equity99.5%
Fixed Income0
Commodities0
Cash0.5%

Geo


Japan100%

Sector


Diversified REITs52.35%
Residential REITs7.89%
Office REITs23.47%
Retail REITs15.8%

Top Holdings

Asset ClassWeight (%)
1. Sun Frontier Fudousan Co Ltd10.68%
2. Daiwa House Industry Co Ltd8.96%
3. Starts Corp Inc8.94%
4. NIPPON REIT Investment Corp8.28%
5. Frontier Real Estate Investment Corp8.14%
6. Mirai Corp8.11%
7. Daiwa House REIT Investment Corp8.06%
8. Starts Proceed Investment Corp7.89%
9. AEON REIT Investment Corp7.84%
10. Mori Hills REIT Investment Corp7.80%