Own the top Canadian REITs

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ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $17.54 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 15 Canadian real estate investment trusts in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets. The fund yields 4.7%. The ETF’s largest holding is RioCan REIT at 19.7%, followed by H&R REIT (14.6%), Canadian REIT (7.5%), Calloway REIT (7.1%), Canadian Apartment REIT (6.9%), Allied Properties REIT (6.4%), Dream Office REIT (6.4%), Cominar REIT (6.1%), Boardwalk REIT (4.9%), Chartwell REIT (4.8%), Artis REIT (4.6%), Granite REIT (4.6%), Crombie REIT (2.2%), Dream Global REIT (2.1%) and Northern REIT (1.7%). iShares CDN REIT is a hold. hold. …