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This 9 page paper looks at the different approaches that a fund management for an investment portfolio manager may adopt where the investments are 100% in property. The general investment approaches of passive, active and post modern portfolio manager are considered along with their viability for a property fund manager. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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File: TS14_TEpropinv.rtf
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or portfolio will depend on many factors from the environmental issues and conditions to the risk profile of the fund and the attitude of the investment manager. This is true
for all types of investment portfolios, from high risk emerging markets where there is a focus in stocks and share, to the management 100% property portfolios. There ma be some
differences inherent in the underlying subject, and for this reason property portfolios may be seen as a different type of investment than more traditional mixed or stock based portfolios. However,
even in this more limited type of investment portfolio there is the need to make decision regarding investment strategies and approaches and determine the underlying strategy. When considering this, general
approaches to investment need to be assessed in order to determine whether or not the strategies that are applied to general investment can be applied to property portfolios. The first
consideration is what is meant by a property portfolio. Investment in property is made up of investments in both commercial and residential investments (Hoesli and MacGregor, 2000). A specific
definition of commercial may vary, this may include offices and shops, it may also include industrial property, but in some countries industrial property may be classified as a different type
of property (Hoesli and MacGregor, 2000). Therefore, there may also be a category of industrial property it is not automatically included within the commercial categorization. The nature of the investment
fund and the types of property may vary between different countries (Hoesli and MacGregor, 2000). For example, within the UK property funds will have commercial property as the dominant property
type within the fund, due to the high level of ownership for residential property. By comparison in countries such as France and the Netherlands, where a high proportion of the
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