Can US Real Estate Mutual Funds Beat the Market? New Evidence

Yuan Zhao, Bryan D. Macgregor and Rainer Schulz

ERES from European Real Estate Society (ERES)

Abstract: This paper examines the performance of active US domestic real estate mutual funds (REMFs) relative to a passive benchmark, both before and after fund managers' compensation. We consider both the REMF sector as a whole, and also individual funds, separately against stock market and real estate market benchmarks. For individual funds, a cross-section bootstrap is used to separate fund managers' genuine skills from luck. We find that the REMF sector as a whole can beat a real estate benchmark but this is cancelled out by fees; and we find that the REMF sector cannot beat the stock market even when fees are not taken into account. For individual REMFs, we find no outperformance against the stock market; and we find genuine stock-picking skills, net of fees, only for a small number of funds in the extreme right tail, relative to the real estate benchmark.

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Date: 2013-01-01
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