Categorically?
As the article points out, ESG cost is as much a matter of perception as reality:. "[M]any of the ESG strategies are holding their own in terms of both performance and fees."
FITLX (0.11%), TICHX (0.22%), FNIDX (0.20%), ESTV (0.12%), VSGX (0.15%).
Several Blackrock ETFs too:
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/45410/fee-war-expands-to-esg-etfs-as-investors-seek-cheap-alternatives

FYI: A very good week for market bulls as the prior week’s selling was all reversed ... Jerome Powell went on ’60 Minutes’ and talked dovish – that sparked a big rally Monday and it continued all week.
Regards,Ted

That’s what Ted said today.
Here’s what Ted said last week: “@MFO Members: The 60 Minutes interview was a complete waste of my time.. It was billed as a conversation between Powell, Yellen, and Bernanke. Powell didn't say anything new, and Yellen and Bernanke were nothing more than window dressing. Regards, Ted:( P.S. I'm canceling my subscription to TV Guide !”. https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/48151/powell-yellen-bernanke-to-appear-together-on-cbs-60-minutes-sunday

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Effective immediately, Investor Class and Institutional Class shares of the Boston Partners Long/Short Equity Fund (the “Fund”) are available for purchase by new investors. Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, has discretion to close the Fund in the future should the assets of the Fund increase by more than 5% from the date of the reopening of the Fund. Any reference to the Fund being closed to new investors is hereby deleted from the Prospectuses.
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FYI: The broad index added 0.3%, building on gains after closing out its best week since November. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 30 points, or 0.1%, to 25878.
Industrial shares lagged behind the S&P 500. Boeing slid 2.1%, keeping the Dow in check, following a Wall Street Journal report that federal prosecutors and Transportation Department officials were scrutinizing the development of the company’s 737 MAX jetliners.
Elsewhere, the Stoxx Europe 600 edged up 0.3%, buoyed by gains in shares of banks and basic resources companies.
Meanwhile, the British pound fell 0.5% against the U.S. dollar as analysts weighed uncertainty over the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.
British lawmakers last week rejected for the second time an exit deal struck by U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and Brussels and voted to delay the final Brexit deadline, currently set for March 29.
Mrs. May could seek to put the withdrawal agreement to the vote a third time this week if she is able to secure support from her ranks, although analysts say that scenario looks unlikely for now.
Earlier, stocks across Asia closed higher.
The Shanghai Composite soared 2.5% for its biggest one-day gain since February, while Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average finished up 0.6%.
Seven of the S&P 500 Sectors finished in positive territory led by Energy. Communication Services led the other four in negative territory
Regards
Ted
Bloomberg Evening Briefing:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/your-evening-briefing
MarketWatch:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-futures-point-to-mixed-start-ahead-of-fed-meeting-boeing-drags-on-dow-2019-03-18/print
WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-inch-higher-ahead-of-the-fed-11552899187
Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-17/asia-stocks-set-for-gains-as-focus-turns-to-fed-markets-wrap?srnd=premium
IBD:
https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-reverses-higher-apple-7-dow-stocks/
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-treads-water-as-boeing-facebook-weigh-fed-meeting-on-tap-idUSKCN1QZ19K
CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/stocks-market-investors-await-federal-reserve-meeting.html
U.K.:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-stocks/miners-banks-lift-ftse-100-but-weaker-pound-takes-down-midcaps-idUKKCN1QZ0S4
Europe:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/commerzbank-deutsche-bank-lead-european-markets-higher-on-merger-talk-2019-03-18/print
Asia:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/asian-markets-rise-despite-uncertainty-over-us-china-trade-talks-2019-03-17/print
Bonds:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/us-bonds-treasury-yields-move-higher-ahead-of-a-fed-meeting.html
Currencies:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/forex-market-dollar-brexit-vote-the-fed-in-focus.html
Oil:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/oil-market-opec-supply-cuts-us-sanctions-in-focus.html
Gold
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/gold-market-federal-reserve-brexit-vote-in-focus.html
WSJ: Markets At A Glance:
https://markets.wsj.com/us
Major ETFs % Change:
https://www.barchart.com/etfs-funds/etf-monitor
SPDR's Sector Tracker:
http://www.sectorspdr.com/sectorspdr/tools/sector-tracker
SPDR's Bloomberg Sector Performance Pie Chart:
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/sectors
Current Futures:
https://finviz.com/futures.ashx
Quote

Related how to pick. Muni etf
https://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/how-pick-muni-bond-etf?nopaging=1

FYI: A very good week for market bulls as the prior week’s selling was all reversed. Last week we asked how many times can we rally on the same Federal Reserve juice. It seems indefinitely. Jerome Powell went on ’60 Minutes’ and talked dovish – that sparked a big rally Monday and it continued all week. The only down day all week was Thursday when the progress on the U.S. – China trade deal seemed to hit a delay.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.stocktrader.com/2019/03/18/weekly-market-recap-mar-17-2019/

FYI: There's growing interest among plan participants, but reluctance to add funds that take into account environmental, social and governance factors persists.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=cFuPXMj4DMOXjwT1m5EI&q=ESG+options+scarce+in+401(k)+plans&btnK=Google+Search&oq=ESG+options+scarce+in+401(k)+plans&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4225.4225..6091...0.0..0.96.181.2......0....2j1..gws-wiz.....0.vWX3GWFkRmQ

Welcome @guster1212
Not knowing, your query suggests you may want more exposure to this sector. Broad equity sector investments, as with SPY or SP-500 indexes indicates from 3-9% exposure to real estate.
The traditional REIT index and the "new" Colony Capital REIT index are different critters; based upon my informally trained view. The below link with let one review the "new" REIT benchmark, as well as the info at the MFO link provided by Ted. It appears these 2 benchmarks are destined to travel different real estate total returns over a long time frame.
Colony Capital REIT index
This chart link provides a brief overview of returns for 3 real estate funds. Cohen and Steers is referenced, due to its long life of active managed real estate investments, as well as providing excellent returns. The Pimco fund is referenced in that I believe it still uses "magic sauce" to attempt to boost the return and FRIFX is referenced as it is mentioned in this thread. FRIFX is a stand alone for the most part in this investment style, as the fund has always traveled about a 50/50 mix of real estate related bond/equity holdings. I don't know of another real estate fund invested in this manner.
Magic sauce = derivatives, and other methods aside from the fund equity holdings.
PETAX, although listed as real estate, is a strange brew of other, too. COMPOSITION here.
---Click PETAX for chart
PETAX CSRIX FRIFX chart from 2003 to date
Brief summary, IMHO; is that time will tell where the "new" real estate index will be of more or less value and how the folks at Doubleline play with whatever they are allowed to do to enhance the return over and above the benchmark. Course, there remains real estate indexes ( as with FSRNX which have an expense cost of .07%).
Sidenote: During the dark days of the market melt, from April, 2007 to April 2009; CSRIX dropped about -60% and FRIFX about -30%.
Et al. Please correct my understanding of the traditional and new REIT index/benchmark, as needed; or incorrect statements......didn't proof read this today.
My 2 cents worth. Away now, to college basketball.
Regards,
Catch

Dear MFO Members: I believe this is what openice is referring too.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/2019/03/launch-alert-doubleline-colony-real-estate-and-income-fund-dbrix-dlrex/

Also, I wrote an MFO Launch Alert about DBRIX this month, which you can reference, as you do further research. (I'm not sure you've seen it.)
FRIRX is a very good fund with a lot to recommend it, an excellent suggestion from davidrmoran, and definitely needs to be considered.
DBRIX

Agree on holding MM and/or CDs to reduce risk. I hold 2 myself in 2 different accounts, SWVXX at Schwab and VUSXX in a smaller TRP 401k I'm hanging onto. Both MM's make 2.3+.
The reduced risk for me especially plays out after I retire. The cash is the draw-down bucket where I won't have to pull living expenses out in a bear market, giving time for the equity side to recover. That is risk prevention for me.

Just a thought. My thinking is that if you want to take some risk out of your portfolio just hold more cash. In my money market mutual funds I am getting better than a 2% yield. Below is a link for a list of the top yielding money market funds. Currently, the money market funds that I own (with their 7 day yield) are AMAXX (2.14%), GBAXX (2.37%), DTGXX (2.23%) and PCOXX (2.46%). In comparison, my two cd's are paying 2.65% and 2.85%.
http://barrons.wsj.net/public/page/9_0204-trmfy.html

@MikeM2: I wouldn't invest in Alternative Funds with you money. Sell the fund and put the money 50/50 SPY and QQQ. However, If its another Alternative Fund, look here.
Regards,
Ted
http://mutualfunds.com/themes/alternative-funds/#complete-list&sort_name=net_assets&sort_order=desc&page=1

FYI: It took some three decades and a financial crisis, but the evangelicals of index investing finally got their message across—low fees lead to better performance.
The past decade has seen unprecedented amounts of money going into index funds. And not just any index funds, but the very cheapest: More than 97% of flows into the $4 trillion exchange-traded fund industry last year went to ETFs that charge 0.2% or less, Bloomberg data shows.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.barrons.com/articles/when-cheap-doesnt-yield-better-returns-51552702025?mod=hp_DAY_2

FYI: Below is an updated look at our ETF Asset Class Performance Matrix, which shows the total returns of key ETFs across assets classes on both a YTD, MTD basis as well as over the last week. How strong were global equity markets this week? Well of all the equity-related ETFs in the matrix, not a single one finished the week in the red. Even Industrials (XLI), which were dragged down by Boeing (BA), managed to eke out a gain of 0.2%. Among US indices, the Nasdaq 100 blew away the field rallying over 4%, but every other US index ETF was up over 1.4%. International markets were even stronger with India (PIN), Brazil (EWZ), and China (ASHR) all rallying more than 4%. Rounding out the four names from BRIC, Russia (RSX) even rallied 3.5%. In terms of YTD leaders, China and Crude oil are neck and neck for the top spot with gains of 25%+.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.bespokepremium.com/bespoke-report/the-bespoke-report-break-out-the-monocle/

We bought O 3 yrs ago, dba after 2012, Duke Realty In 2012. Vnq 14 months ago. Unclear when is next market crash but we do dca slowly into vnq when have enough dividends income the past yr.
You may need to have short fuse sell button if not too comfortable (in just in case sh%t hit the fan) ...
We are not market investors but looking for long term investments... Imho those vehicles we have maybe good ones to Hold Long term.
Igr is another emergent em international REIT maybe wotlrth while take a look at
Let us know what you may do... Maybe buy few funds w good management teams and etf same time and divided evenly
I think Sp500 has 12 or 14%REITS holding in them which maybe the appropriate /right reits exposure for me
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/indices/sp-sector/real-estate

We currently have vnq Vanguard REIT index,
We held trow price real estates in the past and was happy w it but sold it after 2010
We actively holding O and Duke Realty in our holdings
If you are looking for high yield high rewards risky REIT then buy PBA, oil enery pipeline REIT... was recommended by our cpa many yrs ago and bought it... Very happy w it so far
I would spread your funds in several funds etf and possible stocks/equities reits if you are interested
Good luck

@guster1212 Thanks for bringing this fund up. I'd never heard of it before. It seems to offer the returns for the REIT index, - expenses, + whatever bond returns Gundlach can provide. Looks like a pretty good bet for beating the REIT index, based on Gundlach's track record.
Whether now is the moment to buy REITs is another question, to which I have no answer.

Hi Hank,
Over decades investor annual returns performance is not very impressive. The accumulated data demonstrates that the average investor earns slightly more than half the relevant Index returns. See my reference:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4108688-investor-returns-vs-market-returns-failure-endures
So, in hindsight, perhaps my critique of experts was overdone? No!!! The experts claim to fame is that they have special insights. In general, the accumulated data do not support that assertion. Being right about half the time is no great claim to fame. Too, too bad. I sure could use special insights into the market’s future performance and direction. In my case, historical data will suffice lacking any talents in that discipline.
Thank you for contributing here. Over the many years some of the comments, observations, and references offered by MFOers have influenced my investment strategy and tactics. I do learn, but mostly very slowly and sometimes incorrectly. Investing is a tough business, and it does change over time.
Best Wishes