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How active is your real estate fund manager?


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Authors

Cremers, M 

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

Volume Title

18

Publisher

Pageant Media US
Sponsorship
This paper was sponsored by Aberdeen Asset Management PLC and was independently written by the authors.