Document Type
Article
The Stock-REIT Relationship and Optimal Asset Allocations
Publication Title
Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Manangement
Publication Date
2006
Issue Number
3
Volume Number
12
Abstract/ Summary
In this paper, the marginal effects of changes (due to non-stationarity or estimation errors) in the REIT-stock risk premium and the REIT-stock correlation on the optimal portfolio asset mix of REITs, stocks, and bonds are determined. Employing a mean variance utility function and considering different levels of investor risk aversion, the findings reveal that the expected return of REITs, relative to that of stocks, is a much more important factor than the REIT-stock correlation in making portfolio decisions. A 1% change in the forecast return for REITs dramatically impacts optimal portfolio allocations for investors of all risk levels. A significant change of 0.1 in the REIT stock correlation, on the other hand, has only minimal impact on optimal portfolio weights.
Repository Citation
Waggle, Doug and Agrrawal, Pankaj, "The Stock-REIT Relationship and Optimal Asset Allocations" (2006). Finance Faculty Scholarship. 7.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/finance_facpub/7
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