CEO Overconfidence, REIT Investment Activity, and Performance

Date
18-11-2017
Publication
Published in Journal of Financial Markets
Expertise
Sustainable Real Estate, Investments

We evaluate the economics of financial intermediation in alternative assets by investigating the allocation and performance of pension fund investments in real estate, the most significant alternative asset class for institutional investors. We document substantial heterogeneity in real estate investment cost and performance, determined by two main factors: mandate size and investment approach. Larger pension funds are more likely to invest in real estate internally, have lower costs, and higher net returns. Smaller pension funds invest primarily in direct real estate through external managers and fund-of-funds, and disregard listed property companies. Overall, we find that delegating real estate investment management to financial intermediaries increases costs and disproportionally reduces returns.

Publication

Andonov-Eichholtz-Kok_Intermediated-investment-management-in-private-markets.pdf

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