Whether you’re an investor, investment manager, consultant or private wealth adviser, benchmarking your real estate portfolios has become increasingly important for most of you reading this column. (And the need for suitable benchmarking is only likely to grow in importance as investors add and assess infrastructure and other real assets in their portfolios.)

A number of benchmarks are available to you today, including the NCREIF Fund Index – Open End Diversified Core Equity (NFI-ODCE), used by so many of you who are attempting to benchmark the performance of your U.S. private market real estate portfolios.

The Nareit index is among the several standards many real estate securities investors now use to benchmark the performance of their U.S. REIT securities portfolios. And the