Real Estate: Top Dog Among Alternative Mgrs.
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“It feels like 2007,” Towers Watson says of the sector.
ARLINGTON, VA—Real estate remains top dog among the top 100 alternative investment managers, who collectively manage more than $1 trillion in commercial property assets, or about one-third of these managers’ $3.5 trillion assets under management worldwide in 2014,Towers Watson says in its annual Global Alternatives Survey.
Furthermore, there are 29 direct real estate funds managers in the top 100 ranking, more than any other asset class. Although real estate’s total share of AUM falls to 23% when factoring in all 623 of the survey’s respondents—who collectively managed $6.3 trillion globally as of this past Dec. 31—it remains the global leader among a number of investor types…
