This article conducts an attribution analysis for German real estate funds. The performance of real estate funds within Germany is dissected into property returns, liquidity returns, leverage and expenses. Furthermore a model is set up to explain annual fund returns using the factors investor...

The market of German property funds that revalue their real estate assets at least once a year can be subdivided by their legal structure into listed property companies, listed REITs, open-ended public funds and open-ended Spezialfonds. Unlike most other developed real estate markets, the German...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing risk structure of German open-end funds using semi variance based performance measures. Design/methodology: The analysis focuses on an appropriate benchmark and compares classical performance measures with LPM based measures....

Contracting theory asserts that the income statement's primary role is to provide useful information for management performance evaluation. We study the effect of fair value accounting on this role by examining the change in earnings pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) following the 2005 worldwide...