Indirect Investment in Real Estate: Listed Companies and Funds

Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement

This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) def...

Brazilian Pension Funds: Real Estate

The objective of the thesis is to analyze the participation of Brazilian pension funds in the real estate sector, with special attention to their historical motivations. The thesis also describes the prospects of future investments in the sector once that both pension funds and the real estate industry are experiencing great transformation in that country. Since their regulation in the late 197...

Institutional Investors in Germany: Insurance Companies and Investment Funds

This chapter focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of small investors toward specific objectives in terms of risk, return and maturity. The major types of institutional investors in Germany are insurance companies and investment funds. We will examine the nature ...

E-business Analysis of Real Estate Companies

We analyzed the e-business websites of Realestate.yahoo.com, Realtor.com, and Zillow.com. We looked at the similarities and differences between them and how e-business components help differentiate one company from another and the role this plays in contributing to their success. We looked at which business model components, such as value proposition, target customers, distribution channels, an...

Do Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment?