Real Estate Investment Trusts or Marketing for Pharmacists

Real Estate Investment Trusts: Structure, Performance, and Investment Opportunities

Author: Su Han Chan

The book offers broad understanding and unique insights into the REITs industry. Its scope is to analyze and synthesize the existing scholarly research on REITs in a way that will enable managers to improve their investments decisions and the operating performance of their REITs. It also provides up-to-date original research on REITs based on the authors' own database, which is the most extensive data base available on REITs that is free of suvivorship bias. This book helps investors evaluate REITs and identify those with the greatest investment potential. Finally, it provides the reader with a detailed discussion of likely future changes anticipated for this unique invetment vehicle.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	3
2	The Origins and Evolution of Real Estate Investment Trusts	14
3	Organizational Structure	36
4	Advisor Puzzle	55
5	REIT Economies of Scale	70
6	The Impact of Institutional Investors	88
7	Diversification versus Focus	113
8	Dividends and Debt Policies of REITs	127
9	REIT Security Offerings	157
10	The Performance of REIT Stocks	196
11	The Predictability of the REIT Stock Market	235
12	The Future of REITs	246
App	Monthly Stock Returns and Performance Index of All Publicly Traded REITs (1962-2000 and 2001-2002)	265
	Index	297

Interesting textbook: Grounded Theory in Management Research or International Monetary and Financial Economics

Marketing for Pharmacists

Author: David A Holdford

Provides a practical guide on marketing pharmaceutical services. This comprehensive resource equips pharmacists and pharmacy students with the basic principles of marketing, while building an understanding of the need for marketing pharmaceutical services. Readers will develop a more strategic thought process for solving pharmacist marketing problems, and the ability to apply marketing strategies to pharmacy problems. Marketing theory is augmented by case studies, vignettes, and examples, all specific to pharmacy practice.