Diversifying in Public Real Estate: The Ex-Post Performance
22 Pages Posted: 16 Jan 2008
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Diversifying in Public Real Estate: The Ex-Post Performance
Diversifying in Public Real Estate: The Ex-Post Performance
Date Written: January 12, 2008
Abstract
We calculate the ex-post, realized portfolio performance for an investor who diversifies among U.S. stocks, bonds, real estate indirect investment vehicles (E-REITS), and cash. Simulations are performed for two alternative asset allocation frameworks - classical and Bayesian - and for scenarios involving two different samples and six different investment horizons. Interestingly, the ex-post welfare cost of restricting portfolio choice to traditional financial assets (i.e., stocks, bonds, and cash) only is found to be positive in all scenarios for a Bayesian investor. On the contrary, substitution of E-REITS for stocks in optimal portfolios turns out to reduce ex-post portfolio performance over the nineties and for a Classical investor who ignores parameter estimation uncertainty.
Keywords: Optimal asset allocation, Real estate, Parameter uncertainty, Out-of-sample performance
JEL Classification: G11, L85
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