Should You Invest in REITs for Retirement?
Retirement can be an exciting period of life, but also a challenging one. That's because the cost of retirement can be tough to nail down ahead of time -- which makes it a difficult milestone to save for.
As a general rule, retirees are advised to replace about 70% to 80% of their former earnings to maintain a decent standard of living. Social Security will get the average earner about halfway to that benchmark. But generally, saving and investing are the ticket to coming up with the rest.
Now when it comes to building an investment portfolio for retirement, many savers opt to divide their assets between stocks and bonds. But there's another asset it pays to consider for retirement -- REITs, or real estate investment trusts.
Source Fool.com
