Here you will find resources that may help increase your understanding of global real estate, and how duETS can be used by investors.
- The Use Cases suggest ways that duETS Down and Up securities can work for different investor types and investment objectives.
- Under Education, you can find white papers, presentations and Market Commentary.
- Calculators (eValuator) and Tables will help you model hypothetical results of investment in duETS and real estate based on varied inputs.
- NCREIF NPI Market Value Index (MVI).
Education
Learn more about duETS, their structure and role in real estate investment strategies.
duETS PowerPoint Presentation – A quick tour of the features, benefits and applications of duETS for real estate investors.
duETS Series Profile – A Profile of the duETS U.S. Commercial Property Securities 2X.
Real Estate Securities Fair Value – This white paper explains the concept of Fair Value in duETS, and how it can be useful in projecting hypothetical investment performance in relation to the underlying index.
Why Aren’t Existing Real Estate Products Sufficient? – This white paper covers strengths and weaknesses of traditional real estate securities such as unlisted publicly traded REITS and pools of multi- or single-family homes. It explains their limits in investment strategies, and how duETS can fill the gaps.
The Big Short and duETS – This thought-provoking article explains how duETS hypothetically might have been useful to protagonists of the book and movie The Big Short, had these securities been available in 2007-08.
NCREIF Market Value Index Methodology – This publication from NCREIF Research Corner explains the methodlogy behind the new NCREFI Market Market Value Index (MVI).
Calculators & Tables
eValuator – Currently in development, this proprietary online calculator helps you predict hypothetical values of duETS securities at the applicable Valuation Date, given a purchase price and Consensus Estimate of the underlying index value (Consensus Estimate is defined as an average of all third party estimates used for illustration purposes).
20 Years of Real Estate Performance – This table summarizes quarterly performance over a 20-year period for leading real estate indexes – the NCREIF Market Value Index (MVI) and the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI).