REIT Momentum and the Performance of Real Estate Mutual Funds
34 Pages Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last revised: 10 Jun 2009
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REIT Momentum and the Performance of Real Estate Mutual Funds
REIT Momentum and the Performance of Real Estate Mutual Funds
Date Written: July 16, 2008
Abstract
REITs exhibit a large and prevalent momentum effect that is not captured by conventional factor models. We show that this REIT momentum anomaly hampers proper judgments about the active management of REIT portfolios. By contrast, a REIT momentum factor provides incremental explanatory power to performance attribution models for REIT portfolios. Using this factor, we find that REIT momentum explains a great deal of the abnormal returns that actively managed REIT mutual funds earn in aggregate according to earlier related studies. Accounting for exposure to REIT momentum also materially influences cross-sectional comparisons of the performance of REIT mutual funds. Our results have important implications for performance evaluation, alpha-beta separation, and manager selection and compensation.
Keywords: momentum, performance, mutual funds, REITs
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