RREEF: Direct Investment for Individuals Now Possible

NEW YORK CITY-As part of a series of reports anticipated to be available three times a year, Deutsche Bank Group’s RREEF Real Estate has released “Direct Real Estate: Institutional Grade Investing for Individuals’ Portfolios.” The report looks at how individual investors can reap the benefits associated with direct investment in commercial real estate, an area typically the dominion of larger institutional investors.

According to the report, since the end of the tech bubble, portfolios of institutional investors have outperformed conventional portfolios made up of publicly traded equities. In fact, between 1990 and 2010, real estate came out on top of equities over half of the time, logging an average income yield of 7.5%.