"The best performing pension could produce more than three times more pension income than the worst performing one. The really bad news is that your pension fund is more likely to be amongst the bad than the good" The Observer
Investment in commercial property funds has yielded excellent returns in the early 2000s but then faltered badly from 2007, not least due to the so called ‘credit crunch’.
Rental returns remain quite attractive compared to income yields from other asset classes but capital values continue to fall. Should commercial property funds remain an important part of a well-structured portfolio for the future or is it now time to take profits and wait for an upturn?