Pick up a steady income from supermarkets

A new real-estate investment trust – the Supermarket Income Reit – looks like it might could provide the kind of asset-backed, secure income stream that would traditionally be in demand from pension funds.

We live in extraordinary times for income-orientated investors. Finally, everyone seems to have come round to the idea that we're going to be stuck in a low-interest-rate environment for longer than we thought possibly decades. That means there's a ferocious scramble for yield and quality stuff gets snapped up.

Not surprisingly, investment trusts are stepping up to the mark to meet this demand. Some of the funds being marketed at the moment look a bit too complicated for my liking, but others offer a stream of income payments that makes sense. As an investor, what you're looking for is the kind of asset-backed, secure income stream that would traditionally be in demand from pension funds. Step forward a new real-estate investment trust (Reit) called Supermarket Income Reit, which looks like it might tick some of the boxes.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.