Class Differences in Real Estate Private Equity Fund Performance
Posted: 6 Apr 2016
Date Written: April 5, 2016
Abstract
Real estate private equity (REPE) funds are often differentiated by risk class: core, value-added, or opportunistic. Fund class is used by investors and managers to allocate funds and to describe investment policies. In this paper, we use REPE fund cash flow data from Burgiss that allow us to calculate a variety of performance metrics. For a subset of the data, we also observe characteristics of underlying fund holdings. Despite evidence that Value-Added and Opportunistic funds differ in investment composition, we show that class does not do a good job of predicting differences in performance. Unsurprisingly, greater investment in development (as assessed ex post), predicts poor performance for funds raised just before the Great Recession.
Keywords: Real estate investment; Private equity; Fund performance
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David J. Hartzell
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( email )
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
United States
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