pinstock Over the past five years, real estate (VNQ) has been broadly disrupted by a variety of macroeconomic factors. Between rising interest rates and the effects of the pandemic, each asset class faced a variety of unique emerging risk factors which have materially affected performance. Broadly speaking, real estate has struggled over the past five years because of these headwinds and many more. Data by YCharts However, what's more interesting is that performance across asset classes has diverged bro ...