The significance of property sector and geographic diversification in australian institutional property portfolios

Pacific Rim Property Research Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 248-264

  Newell, Graeme ^a   Keng, Tan Yen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlations; Geographic diversification; PCA property index; Property sector diversification; Pure property returns; Sector specific LPTs; Tracking error

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247169523     PISSN: 14445921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14445921.2003.11104142     Document Type: Article

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