Besides REITs, are there other forms of investment trusts that pay out shareholders dividends?
I know that they REITs have to have a minimum of 100 shareholders, and pay a minimum of 90% of taxable income to its shareholders. Is there other types of real estate investment trusts that have lower thresholds?
[{"id": "iatzp4f", "text": "Income trusts, limited partnerships that are listed (MLPs I think they were called) etc", "replies": [{"id": "iau0aye", "text": "Thanks for the insight!", "replies": [{"id": "iau0muw", "text": "No problem there were quite a few listed in Canada once upon a time due to advantageous tax structures that paid out a majority of earnings but then slowly fell out of favor after laws were altered. Oil and gas pipelines in the us made use of this structure quite a lot as well before the fracking crash but definitely quite a few still survive and thrive under these structures for income focussed investors", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "iav2bmf", "text": "I'll expand to funds that payout high yields. \nBond funds also pay a large portion of their payout. Watch out for funds that are paying out over 109% of their income.\n\nMLO and BDCL are options buy can have high exposure to oil prices. Same for junk bonds with oil fracking companies.\n\nThere are also preferred stock funds. These have high exposure to finance if there is another finance meltdown.\n\nWatch out for high yield bond funds that may lose a lot during the next down turn. The fed bailout in 2020 prevented a lot of near junk debt from defaulting. Now with rate rises, the Fed is intent on returning discipline to the junk bond market.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iavmphy", "text": "Look at DST..", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iavq87w", "text": "The requirements are not really a huge threshold. There are Admin companies handling the shareholder part of the work. If you have multiple assets under one REIT, it may make sense to go this route.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]