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The Core Portfolio Manager Dilemma--Take The Money And Run?

It used to be when open-end real estate fund managers had queues to deal with, their clients wanted to take money back, because of poor performance. Today…

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on April 16, 2014

It used to be when open-end real estate fund managers had queues to deal with, their clients wanted to take money back, because of poor performance. Today most open end funds have queues—totaling billions of dollars—waiting to get into these sought-after funds, which invest in core real estate concentrated in the top markets. The lumpiness of real estate and the relatively lengthy transaction process would be an advantage to advisors in the old days. They could string out sales, wait for markets to rebound, continue to earn fees, and hope their clients would change their minds when performance turned more positive. In many instances, institutional clients would back off and stay in the funds.

Today, the capital flood flowing their way ironically presents open-end fund managers with a potentially more daunting problem as prime real estate values have more than recovered since the 2008-2009 crash. The combination of low interest rates and investor -driven cap rate compression have sent prices in the coveted 24-hour cities to uncomfortable levels. It is an opportune time to sell marginal properties into the buying wave, but responsibly disposing of cats and dogs only adds to the portfolio manager challenge for meeting client commitments on the queue wanting into the funds.

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