Because pension fund managers are desperate to find investments that will provide them solid yields, and real properties are their only candidates.
More importantly, these allocations don't change much over time,
because pension fund managers are less likely to chase performance and buy what's hot.
Not exact matches
The New York State
Pension Fund, and the taxpayers who have to backstop it, have lost billions of dollars
because Tom DiNapoli made risky investments on Wall Street in an attempt to meet an unrealistic return expectation that any private sector money
manager in America — except maybe Bernie Madoff — would know is a fallacy.»
This is
because you are in control of your own destiny, and not hoping that the government, an employer
pension plan or a mutual
fund manager would support you.
Andy McGregor, RPC banking litigation partner, says: «The banks are already under a huge amount of regulatory pressure in relation to manipulation of the foreign exchange market, but in financial terms the banks face a similar risk as regards civil litigation from
pension funds and other
fund managers that lost money
because of FX manipulation if there are adverse regulatory findings.
«
Because general (non-real estate) investment returns have not been high enough to meet future return obligations,
pension funds and other institutional
funds have been reducing the headcount of
managers as a cost - saving measure, as well as «shooting for larger returns» by looking at increased levels of investment in real estate.»