We create globally diversified real estate portfolios using cointegration methods over 1992-2009. Cointegration is robust to intertemporal correlation instability, identifies markets that share common factors and long-term trends, and identifies leading markets that do not respond to deviations...

This article examines the performance of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) mutual funds from January 1987 to June 1995. As a group, the MBS mutual funds underperform both the "Salomon and Lehman Brothers" MBS market benchmarks. The relative underperformance of the MBS mutual funds is due to poor...

We examine factors underlying the differences in commingled real estate fund (CREF) performance using a sample of 65 CREFs during 1985-2002. More than half of the individual CREFs underperformed the employed benchmark. However, portfolios of CREFs performed well in both up and down markets,...

We analyze the performance of international equity SMAs over 1986-2003. We find that performance persists at both the country and individual SMA level. Best performing countries continue to outperform and best performing SMAs continue to outperform, even after controlling for market, firm size,...

We examine the performance of real estate mutual funds during January 1991-December 1997. As a group, the sampled funds outperformed the "Wilshire Real Estate Securities Index" on a risk-adjusted basis by more than 5 percentage points annually. We attempt to explain these surprising findings by...

We simulate results from a simple real options model to provide insight into the value-growth stock return anomaly. In our model, firms possess either single ("value" firm) or multiple ("growth" firm) investment opportunities. Our model predicts that growth firms: (1) invest sooner, (2) exhibit...