Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society due to low birthrate and increasing life expectancy. Accordingly, the life span after retirement is gradually increasing, which means they need more money to fund their retirement than expected. The retiremen...
Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society due to low birthrate and increasing life expectancy. Accordingly, the life span after retirement is gradually increasing, which means they need more money to fund their retirement than expected. The retirement of the baby boomers and the rapidly increasing number of retirees is becoming an important social issue. Although the government operates a three-tiered system of public pensions, retirement pensions, and private pensions to prepare for retirement, it is still insufficient to maintain the retirement lifestyle of the retired generation, which requires additional personal income supplementation other than public pensions. Many people who are about to retire are making various investments such as stocks, bonds, and real estate for their retirement income, and many people especially prefer to invest in real estate. However, recently, it has become increasingly difficult to obtain profits through direct investment in real estate for various reasons, and as more and more investors prefer rental income or dividend income to capital gains from direct investment, indirect investment in real estate, which entrusts professionals to manage and invest and distribute profits, has recently attracted attention. Indirect real estate investments are made through real estate funds and listed REITs, which can be linked to retirement pensions and individual pensions, and have many advantages in securing retirement assets. Indirect investment in real estate is also considered a suitable means of managing assets in the aging era at the national level and is trying to develop through institutional support. Among various indirect investment products, this study proposes listed REITs (REITs), which have recently been in the spotlight as a way to guarantee retirement income for retired generations.
As the aging society advances, securing regular and consistent cash flows is of utmost importance, and pension income is a representative way to secure such cash flows in retirement. This study examines the characteristics of pension income and compares the typical attributes of pensions to those of REITs to show that REITs can be an alternative to pension income in pursuit of the stability, profitability, and sustainability required for pension income. To this end, we analyze the characteristics of listed REITs by analyzing cases of listed REITs in Korea and abroad, and propose a valid investment method for securing retirement income through listed REITs. In particular, by presenting listed REITs investment methods through several examples in terms of the risk and rate of return that a pension should have for the cash flow of the retirement generation, it informs many people that pension income is possible through listed REIT investment. The goal was to arouse interest in listed REITs.
Compared to other investment methods that can be compared to listed REITs, investing in dividend stocks similar to listed REITs is the same as direct investment in stocks, which requires individual company analysis and is difficult to predict macroeconomic conditions and dividend availability, while listed REITs are more suitable as an investment vehicle for older generations preparing for retirement because they are relatively easy to predict and have stable characteristics. Compared to direct real estate investment, listed REITs have advantages in terms of the amount of investment, liquidity, expertise, and complexity of asset management that must be considered for direct investment, and they also have the advantage of being able to withdraw in the middle and invest for a relatively long period of time compared to other real estate funds. In conclusion, listed REITs are generally easy to predict investment returns, can be invested with small amounts, and have very high liquidity, Even though it is a real estate investment, there is no difficulty in general real estate management, and individuals can freely choose the investment time, region, and sector at any time. In particular, it is characterized by medium-risk, medium-return, which is the most essential advantage for securing income in retirement. As a result, this study shows that investing in listed REITs is an effective investment method for retirement that meets the requirements of pension income in terms of profitability, stability, and continuity. The study concludes with a proposal for the promotion of domestic listed REITs, which need to be improved compared to overseas REITs in order to secure retirement income, showing that listed REITs, which are still largely unknown to domestic investors, can be a meaningful option to complement public pensions. We hope that investing in listed REITs will become a safe and efficient way for everyone to secure their retirement income. keywords: Ageing Era, Retired Generation, Pension Income, Listed REITs