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Open- vs. Closed-End Real Estate Funds: How the Choice Mattered
Mar 30, 2021 Bryan Reid, Luis O’Shea, Bert TeubenThe aggregate performance of closed- and open-end real estate funds in the U.S. was strikingly similar in recent years, despite large differences in their strategy and roles in portfolios. But did some investors gain an edge through fund selection?

Deconstructing ESG Ratings Performance: Risk and Return for E, S And G by Time Horizon, Sector and Weighting
Mar 30, 2021 GIESE Guido, NAGY Zoltan, LEE Linda-ElingHow are environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings constructed? Which indicators are the most important in assessing ESG characteristics? Does the answer vary by sector? This foundational paper examines the impact on financial performance of two types of ESG indicators: the individual E, S and G pillars scores and the underlying ESG Key Issue scores.

How Inflation Could Affect Multi-Asset-Class Portfolios
Mar 3, 2021 Thomas Verbraken, Daniel SzaboMarket participants are hotly debating whether U.S. monetary and fiscal policy may cause inflation. We consider four scenarios — reflation, disinflation, an overheated economy and stagflation — and their potential impact on multi-asset-class portfolios.

Currency-Risk Hedging in Real Estate Benchmarks
Feb 22, 2021 Bert Teuben, Lionel Ebener, Chirag Gosar
2021 Real Estate Trends to Watch
Jan 12, 2021 Will RobsonCOVID-19 has caused a severe and rapid economic contraction and accelerated secular changes already hitting parts of the real estate markets. Investors face a fundamental question: How will real estate evolve as a sector and asset class? Here are our 2021 real estate trends to watch.


COVID-19 and Office Income: What Could Lie Ahead?
Nov 25, 2020 Fritz LouwWith new COVID-19 lockdowns and swaths of white-collar workers working from home, many office tenants are contemplating whether the future of work includes office space. This could have significant impact on office demand and income from leases.

MSCI Real Estate Research Snapshot Part 1
Nov 5, 2020Part 1 of this year’s MSCI Real Estate Research Snapshot is a compilation of our research published through the first half of 2020. At the start of the year we suggested that 2020 may prove to be a watershed year in terms of the way investors consider real estate as an asset class. On the face of it, it seems that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we may have been right, albeit for entirely different reasons.
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