| UK balanced property funds outperformed specialist funds for the third consecutive quarter in the first three months of 2012, according to the Association of Real Estate Funds’ (AREF) Investment Quarterly (IQ) for the period. This pattern follows eight consecutive quarters of specialist funds outperforming balanced funds.
The UK PPFI (all pooled property funds index) delivered a quarterly return of 0.7% in Q1, down from 1.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011. This marks the fifth consecutive reduction in the quarterly return rate since the peak of 2.7% in Q4 2010..............................................Full Article: Source
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