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Asia Pacific Real Assets Association (APREA) has partnered with MSCI to launch a new property fund index to track the rapidly growing Asia Pacific institutional real estate sector.
The MSCI/APREA Pan-Asia Quarterly Property Fund Index (APFI) is a transparency tool that gives managers and REITs the opportunity to differentiate their strategies against the market. This peer group index provides a competitive set of vehicles to benchmark performance, analyze both fund- and property-level data, and evaluate intra-year in-region market indicators.
The APFI is designed to represent the performance of unlisted open-ended pooled real estate funds with an Asia Pacific investment mandate in core assets. The index is based on a sample of four funds with a total net asset value of $7.2 billion as of June 2021.
Building on the established global methodology and success of MSCI’s pan-European and Americas indexes, the APFI seeks to become the new industry standard, capturin
