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The INREV Public Affairs Committee's response to the consultation to encourage informed consideration of non-listed property funds as a long-term investment.This report explores the impact of regulatory change on long-term investing strategies and on the real economy.

Long-term investment enhances the productive capacity of the economy and often has wider public benefits, since it generates greater returns for society as a whole by supporting essential services and improving living standards. Public debate is currently focused on how to encourage long-term investment in Europe.

This study examines management fees and costs. There are two parts to the study: the European part and the global comparison.

Europe

INREV's Management Fees and Terms study provides an overview of the fees, costs and total expense ratios (TERs) of European non-listed real estate funds. This part has been conducted on a regular basis (but not annually) since 2007.

Global Comparison

The Management Fees and Terms Global Comparison Study compares the fees and costs and, where applicable, total expense ratios (TERs) of non-listed real estate funds in Europe, Asia Pacific and the US. This part has been conducted on a regular basis (but not annually) since 2007. The global comparison has been conducted since 2010.

The European non-listed property funds industry is laying the groundwork for an improved focus on sustainability. This report takes GRESB's data on non-listed real estate funds and analyses their sustainability performance, with a particular focus on European funds, to provide more tailored information and guidance to our members on this topic.

As part of its commitment to supporting its members to improve their sustainability efforts, INREV is a partner in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), a global consortium of institutional investors and real estate industry associations committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real estate portfolios. One of GRESB’s main initiatives is its annual survey, which provides focus and direction for the real estate sector by benchmarking sustainability performance. The results provide an overview of sustainability activities and trends in global real estate for both the public and private sector.

INREV's Annual Report and Financial Statements are available since 2009 and provide the Chairman's Report, Mission, History, Association Stucture, and describes INREV's platforms, committees, membership status, activities, and financial report.

The European non-listed property funds industry is laying the groundwork for an improved focus on sustainability. This report takes GRESB's data on non-listed real estate funds and analyses their sustainability performance, with a particular focus on European funds, to provide more tailored information and guidance to our members on this topic.

As part of its commitment to supporting its members to improve their sustainability efforts, INREV is a partner in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), a global consortium of institutional investors and real estate industry associations committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real estate portfolios. One of GRESB’s main initiatives is its annual survey, which provides focus and direction for the real estate sector by benchmarking sustainability performance. The results provide an overview of sustainability activities and trends in global real estate for both the public and private sector.

This is the first in a series of academic papers that INREV will publish. Going forward INREV plans to invite the academic community to research the European non-listed real estate market in more detail.

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the key drivers of European non-listed real estate funds performance, which in turn will aid portfolio managers in making more informed investment decisions. It also seeks to understand the extent to which stock selection and management skills contribute to a fund’s total return, outperformance and risk adjusted performance. This academic paper has been written by Franz Fuerst (University of Cambridge), Wayne Lim (University of Cambridge) and George Matysiak (Master Management Group & Cracow University of Economics).

The 2013 ANREV Index covers the performance of Asian Pacific non-listed real estate funds.
Japan recovery

The results of the ANREV Annual Index show that Asia Pacific non-listed real estate funds performance has improved compared to 2012. The All Funds Index returned 9.2% in 2013 compared with 7.7% in 2012.

Looking at styles, opportunity funds outperformed core funds in 2013 at 10.9% and 9.1% respectively driven by very strong performance in Q4 2013.

In terms of geographies, single country funds in Japan and China were strong performers compared to multi country funds (7.2%): Japan funds returned 9.4% compared to a negative return in 2012 (-1.0%) and China funds returned 13.7% compared to a 1.6% return in 2012. Note that the coverage of China funds improved as we have now 10 funds included in the sub-index.

In this release, we have introduced two new sub-indices, by structure and by sector. The structure subindices shows that open end funds outperformed closed end funds in 2013, which was not the case in 2012. And single sector funds outperformed multi sector funds in 2013.”

INREV's Business Plans are produced annually for three-year periods, describing the priorities for the next three years, actions, market trends, results of the member survey, and a review of the previous year.