Brazilian Commercial Real Estate Guide

It is not possible for an investor to report performance only in certain quarters and not in others, as some times happens with private equity; NCREIF membership constitutes a long-term commitment. Further, data reported by NCREIF members is treated by the organization under a strict non-disclosure agreement.2 Thus, manipulating performance numbers would be ineffective because this could not help the investor signal quality. Because NCREIF members are both willing and able to fully and confidentially report this data to NCREIF, this arrangement gives us the opportunity to examine trades in a large private asset market, in a more complete and unbiased way than the data used in past...