How active is your real estate fund manager?
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Authors
Cremers, M
Lizieri, Colin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7111-8052
Abstract
Using a holdings-based measure of active management termed the ‘Segment Active Share’, the paper documents that commercial real estate portfolios that are more active – i.e., have segment weights which are least like those of the index – have outperformed. Employing proprietary IPD data for 256 U.K. real estate funds over 2002-2011, we find that funds with high Segment Active Share on average outperformed the real estate market by 1.9% per year. These funds do not seem to take increased risk and their outperformance cannot be explained by fund size alone, though on average they are smaller funds.
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Keywords
Commercial real estate portfolios, Segment Active Share, holdings
Journal Title
Journal of Alternative Investments
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Journal ISSN
1520-3255
2168-8435
2168-8435
Volume Title
18
Publisher
Pageant Media US
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Sponsorship
This paper was sponsored by Aberdeen Asset Management PLC and was independently written by the authors.