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- Seeking Returns In Global Markets
- The benefits of a global allocation strategy are to improve the overall portfolio return, by reducing aggregate risk and to add excess return through regional and country weighting strategies. Considerations of macro changes from a local economic perspective will yield greater efficacy in realizing greater returns. Seeking yield by moving...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Office Exposure In A Real Estate Portfolio : But At What Price?
- Investors have not historically priced risk accurately and, as a result, have not been appropriately compensated for bearing the incremental risk, which characterizes this sector. However, this cannot be expected to persist assuming rational capital market behavior. The speed and magnitude of the potential pricing shift discussed above will depend...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Practical Strategies For Managing Risk And Adding Value To Your Portfolio
- Article encodes a suggestion that applies both to risk management and adding value: an investor today can add much more value to its overall program, and better manage its risk, by top-down strategic planning and developing clear investment guidelines, benchmarks and processes to achieve the strategy and measure the value...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Asset Preservation Techniques—Are We Devoting Our Best Efforts?
- The emphasis on how value is created in real estate shifts during different cycles from understanding macro-trends to understanding micromanagement. In the 1990s, significant rental rate growth allowed investors in real estate to achieve high levels of returns through appreciation. The confluence of factors that created the environment where making...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- The Difficulty Of Finding Good Acquisitions
- The current real estate investment environment is one of conflicting messages, making it difficult to find good acquisitions. Fundamentals are languishing and in some cases, deteriorating, due to the impact of the recession. On the surface, it seems that the combination of weak fundamentals and high asset prices would preclude...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- The Next Enron: Buying The Wrong Stock For The Right Reason
- This paper focuses on certain opportunities and risks associated with investing in stocks whose prices have fallen sharply. It explores whether the Wall Street adage, “Never catch a falling knife” is advice to be followed under all circumstances. It discusses a potential principal-agent conflict reasons why money managers may avoid...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can Public Funds Compete?
- Recent research indicates that public fund returns lag those of corporate plans and endowments, even after adjusting for differences in risk. This presentation explains the methodology, conclusions, and preliminary findings as to what is responsible for this result. It concludes that the public fund lag is not attributable to fund...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Finding Consistent Alpha
- For several decades, U.S. pension plans have looked to the stock market to achieve high returns on their assets, and over time, this has been a winning strategy. However, the recent bear market has contributed significantly to a disconcerting shortfall in the funding of pension fund liabilities. There are several...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Is International Still An Effective Diversifier?
- Over the five years, international equities as measured by MSCI EAFE have returned 3.7% annually in U.S. dollars, while the S&P 500 index returned 14.3% annually. Thus, EAFE under performed U.S. equities by an average of 10.6% a year over the past five years, the second-worst five-year comparative record that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Will Big “Consolidator” REITs Perform Against Their Competitors and Why Is There Such Underperformance?
- The heart of the question is whether the strategy of pursuing size is valid. If one is a general REIT investor, the answer has been clearly yes. These companies have provided durable and superior returns, while providing liquid access to a diverse and appropriately levered core real estate portfolio. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can Public Funds Compete?
- Recent research indicates that public fund returns lag those of corporate plans and endowments, even after adjusting for differences in risk. Possible factors, which are difficult to reject at this time, include differences in asset allocation, investment management strategy, staff compensation, and governance and cultural factors. All these factors have...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Developing A Real Estate Strategy And Quadrant Structure For A $1.5 Billion Real Estate Investor
- The article discusses the issues for decision-making on key elements of the portfolio management. Using a combination of historical data, empirical analysis of market conditions, and projections of future performance conditions, investors have a range of analytic tools available for portfolio construction, including asset allocation modeling and portfolio risk budgeting....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Accessing Top Quartile Venture Capital Funds
- This paper explains the importance of accessing top quartile venture capital. It determinates that top quartile performance is routinely included on most institutional investors’ short list of investment objectives. Whether active investment managers can be expected to achieve above-average returns over time is dependent upon the efficiency of the market...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Case for Non-U.S. Equity
- It is believed that there are several important reasons for investors to look to non-U.S. markets when making investment decisions. By investing in non-U.S. markets, investors can increase their return potential through owning leading companies in non-U.S. countries, while decreasing portfolio risk. Investment professionals experienced in managing non-U.S. equity can...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Global Pricing Of Equity And The Influence Of Industry Factors
- As the investment world becomes ever more integrated, a pronounced home bias and segmented approach to portfolio management should be supplanted by more holistic and global approach. Home bias is sometimes justified by the increased correlations between national stock markets, which reduces the benefit of international risk diversification. However, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Are The Keys To Successful And Active Intervention By GPs In Their Troubled Portfolio Companies?-Steps to Follow in a Distressed Situation
- Turning around a troubled portfolio company is time and resource intensive. Before making the decision to commit these valuable resources, GPs must carefully assess the situation and determine how troubled the portfolio company is and what actions and resources are required to rescue the company. The GP must then weigh...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What’s Non-Traditional About Investing In Timberland, Agriculture, Oil and Gas, And Power?
- This paper provides a cursory description and overview of the value of investing in timber and agriculture, the value and risks of investing in oil and gas, and a more detailed description and analysis of the value of investing in the power sector. This paper is meant to be provocative...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What is Core Real Estate? Where are the Opportunities Today?
- This article talks about the real estate cycle that has matured to an equilibrium level, core real estate investment strategies are garnering more attention from pension funds. Although core investing cannot be defined precisely, the overwhelming characteristics relate to the predictability and stability of the income stream, and the liquidity...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Asset Allocation: Concept in Play
- Presently time is very complex and dangerous for the world. Past patterns of economic leadership can no longer be relied upon to forecast the future and the threats to the larger economies are growing from both economic and political developments. This has led some commentators to argue that it is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Small Isn’t What It Used To Be: The Changing Face Of Smaller Investment Firms
- This article discusses the changing face of smaller investment firms. An astute plan sponsor will recognize that young firms are more likely to be risk-takers. It also may be true that these firms will be more likely to identify innovative strategies that will add value. Everything else being equal, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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