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Canadian REITs are a good option for those wanting real estate representation in their portfolio

SNOWFLAKE INC., $208.18, symbol SNOW on New York, provides cloud-based data storage and analytics to more than 11,500 customers worldwide.

San Mateo, California-based Snowflake was founded in 2012 to help companies manage data they store in the cloud—the remote servers and software services that firms use to store and process vast amounts of information....

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REITs Canada is the remaining category of income trusts, continue to pay distributions before they pay tax—and that’s good for unitholders.

ALARIS EQUITY PARTNERS INCOME TRUST $19 (Toronto symbol AD.UN; Shares outstanding: 45.5 million; Market cap: $864.5 million; Dividend yield: 7.2%) lends money to its partners—private businesses—in exchange for distributions, dividends or interest....

RXO INC., $26.77, symbol RXO on New York, is a provider of brokered transportation services in Canada and the U.S. The company offers tech-enabled truck brokerage services together with complementary solutions including managed transportation, freight
forwarding and last mile delivery.

RXO operates an “asset light” business model....

Look for Canadian income trusts or REITs that focus on investment inputs as well as investment outputs. Here are 9 criteria.

ALARIS EQUITY PARTNERS INCOME TRUST $16 (Toronto symbol AD.UN; Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 45.5 million; Market cap: $728.0 million; Dividend yield: 8.5%) lends money to its partners—private businesses—in exchange for distributions, dividends or interest....

Most real estate stocks and REITs were well on their way to recovering their pre-COVID highs when interest rates began to rise. But those higher rates worried investors and dramatically slowed that recovery.


Still, for most real-estate classes (except for office buildings), occupancies have risen back to pre-pandemic levels, and rents are rising....

A: Richards Packaging Income Fund, $46.53, symbol RPI.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 11.0 million; Market cap: $526.6 million; www.richardspackaging.com), is a full-service packaging maker and distributor to small- and medium-sized North American businesses in the cosmetics (25% of sales), healthcare (40%), food & beverage, and other industries (35%).

The fund first sold stock to the public at $10 a unit and began trading on Toronto in April 2004....