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• A Meta Analysis of Real Estate Fund Performance

  BNET - 2002-05-13

  This paper provides evidence regarding the risk-adjusted performance of 19 UK real estate funds in the UK, over the period 1991-2001. Using Jensen's alpha the results are generally favorable towards the hypothesis that real estate fund managers showed superior risk-adjusted performance over this period. However, the paper then utilizes the...

  Tags: Performance, Analysis, University Of Reading, Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Continental Shift? An Analysis of Convergence Trends in European Real Estate Equities

  BNET - 2002-05-13

  This paper investigates the effects of this 'event' on the behavior of stock returns in European real estate companies. A range of statistical tests is applied to the performance of European property companies to test for changes in segmentation, co-movement, and causality. The results suggest that, relative to the wider...

  Tags: Analysis, Convergence, University Of Reading, Performance Management, Real Estate, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance

• Time Weighted Portfolio Optimization

  BNET - 2001-06-01

  In estimating the inputs into the Modern Portfolio Theory MPT portfolio optimization problem, it is usual to use equal weighted historic data. Equal weighting of the data, however, does not take account of the current state of the market. Consequently, this approach is unlikely to perform well in any subsequent...

  Tags: Optimization, University Of Reading, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• The Compulsory Purchase of Farmland: Identifying Severance and Injurious Affection Claims

  BNET - 2001-04-04

  In situations of compulsory purchase of farmland, claims for the injurious affection of retained land can form a substantial part of the overall claim for compensation. This paper seeks to identify the problems of identifying injurious affection and severance items, and examines how statutory provision and subsequent case law have...

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• Persistence of UK Real Estate Returns: A Markov Chain Analysis

  BNET - 2000-10-01

  The persistence of investment performance is a topic of perennial interest to investors. The problem has been of particular interest to investors in real estate; not least because reported returns from investment in real estate are serially correlated thus implying some persistence in investment performance. This paper applies the established...

  Tags: Analysis, University Of Reading, Real Estate, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance

• Attribution Analysis of Property Portfolios

  BNET - 2000-05-30

  This paper aims to clarify the potential confusion about the application of attribution analysis to real estate portfolios. Its three primary objectives are viz; To review, and as far as possible reconcile, the varying approaches to attribution analysis evident in the literature, To give a clear statement of the purposes...

  Tags: Analysis, University Of Reading, Attribution Analysis, Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Evidence of Cycles in European Commercial Real Estate Markets and Some Hypotheses

  BNET - 2000-05-12

  This paper seeks to achieve four objectives. First, it provides some contextual material concerning the performance of the UK real estate market relative to stocks and bonds over a long period. Second, it provides UK û and some non-UK European - evidence of the tendency for property demand, supply, prices,...

  Tags: Hypotheses, U.K., University Of Reading, Real Estate, Investment, Performance Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management