In addition, the company's senior unsecured debt and issuer ratings have been recently upgraded by Moody's to Baa2 from Baa3; the agency also mentioned the company's improvement in asset quality and long-term growth profile. Another fund betting on Columbia Property Trust Inc (NYSE:CXP) is Lee Ainslie 's Maverick Capital, which has also raised its stake by 5% on the quarter to 4.23 million shares held at the end of September. In addition, Dmitry Balyasny 's Balyasny Asset Management doubled its stake to 860,800 shares during the same period. So with REITs being among hot stocks so far this year, with the S&P 500 Real Estate Investment Trust Composite returning around 23% versus the S&P 500 gains of 11%, should smaller investors also consider betting on this relatively cheap dividend plays, even though the majority of big funds do not allocate significant portions of their portfolios for this segment. Disclosure: none