I found many old and new studies using a range of methods to
compare inflation hedging of various assets, sometimes with scant explanation of the methods employed.
Also, because the conclusions of the Bekaert and Wang appear to be broadly representative of most of the other recent studies I found, I use their results below to
compare the inflation hedging ability of several investment assets.
Not exact matches
Therefore, we should also
compare the relative
inflation hedging ability of one asset to another.
When we
compare the expected range of real wealth at the end of 10 years, we find much of the higher dispersion of expected real return for the
inflation -
hedging portfolio is on the upside.
According to research by TIAA - CREF Global Real Estate that
compares how well various asset types perform as
inflation hedges, among 5,000 portfolios with five - year holding periods, but with random starting years from 1978 to 2011, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Property Index's total returns for commercial real estate beat
inflation 84 percent of the time, and by a huge 698 basis points, on average.