Prologis Inc ( PLD ) A combination real estate investor and venture capital fund, Prologis is trading higher by 27% over the last 52 weeks but remains lower by over 5% in 2017. Having voraciously read Robert Allen's seminal book, Nothing Down , as a college student, I decided to purchase a duplex in what I believed was an up-and-coming part of the city. While traditional income-focused investments fail to perform in the face of looming inflationary pressures, REITs are uniquely designed to fight inflation.