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White Paper The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build -- Oracle's Pre-built Analytic Applications Versus Building a Custom Warehouse Read about the pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse. (Oracle)...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehouse, Databases, Enterprise Software

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Date: September 2007
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White Paper Are The Rewards Worth The Risks?: Managing A Global Real Estate Portfolio As the changing U.S. market spurs institutional investors and real estate owners to diversify their portfolios beyond domestic boundaries, globalization is becoming more ...

Tags: Business Operations, Deloitte LLP, Real Estate

Company: Deloitte Development
Date: July 2008
Deloitte Development
Tools & Templates What Is The Yield On My Portfolio? A common way to track investment performance is to compute an annualized return. This task becomes difficult when complicated by taxes, fees, dividends, and trading activ...

Tags: Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Productivity, Taxes

Company: Farmers
Date: January 2008
Farmers
White Paper Strategic Management of the Fourth Asset Class: Real Estate and the Financial Services Sector What some consultancy firms have proposed is that profitability for financial service organizations will come from looking within their own companies. "The game will be t...

Tags: Asset, Strategic Management, Real Estate, Manhattan Group, Management

Company: Manhattan Group
Date: March 2006
Manhattan Group
White Paper Real Estate Brokerage: Factors That May Affect Price Competition Consumers paid an estimated $61 billion in residential real estate brokerage fees in 2004. Because commission rates have remained relatively uniform--regardless of market...

Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate

Company: U.S. General Accounting Office
Date: August 2005
U.S. General Accounting Office
White Paper Home Appraisal: Housing Cycle Should Continue to Fuel Consumer Spending The strength of the housing market and the rapid rise in house prices have led many to conclude that housing is a bubble now ready to burst. But the housing market is lif...

Tags: Alliance Capital Management, Appraisal, Capital Structures, Finance, Housing Market

Company: Alliance Capital Management
Date: July 2005
Alliance Capital Management
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White Paper Inequality, Social Discounting and Estate Taxation To what degree should societies allow inequality to be inherited? What role should estate taxation play in shaping the intergenerational transmission of welfare? This pap...

Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Inequality

Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005
National Bureau of Economic Research
White Paper If National Banks Were Allowed Access to the Real Estate Brokerage Market, Would They Benefit? The Community Choice in Real Estate Act The national banks are seeking permission from federal regulators to add real estate brokerage services to their inventory of financial products. This study's objective i...

Tags: Bank, Benefit, Business Operations, Microsoft Access, Real Estate

Company: Southeastern Louisiana University
Date: January 2005
Southeastern Louisiana University
White Paper Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions Agents are often better informed than the clients who hire them and may exploit this informational advantage. Real-estate agents, who know much more about the housing mar...

Tags: Agent, Business Operations, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Real Estate, Real Estate Agent

Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: January 2005
National Bureau of Economic Research
White Paper Mortgage REIT Rating Criteria This paper draws methodological input from a wide range of analytical disciplines within Fitch. The mortgage REIT criterion is primarily a combination of traditional fina...

Tags: Business Operations, Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Accounting, Fitch

Company: Fitch
Date: December 2004
Fitch
Tools & Templates Real Estate Client Tracking Report Use this template to compile the specific client information required for building a client relationship from beginning of sale to close of transaction. ...

Tags: Business Operations, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate

Company: Microsoft
Date: November 2004
Microsoft
White Paper Mortgage Pricing Disclosure Rule Poses New Reputational Risk for Lenders Because of a recent change to the regulation implementing the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) that took effect on January 1, 2004, lenders are now required to collect...

Tags: Capital Structures, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Mortgages, Marketing Research

Company: Ernst & Young
Date: October 2004
Ernst & Young
White Paper Time-Varying Macroeconomic Risk and Commercial Real Estate: An Asset Pricing Perspective This paper empirically investigates the behavior over time of excess returns (risk premium) on commercial real estate. Specifically, the first and second conditional mome...

Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Asset Pricing, Business Operations, Commercial Real Estate

Company: National University of Singapore
Date: April 2004
National University of Singapore
White Paper Real Estate Pricing: Spreads & Sensibilities: Why Real Estate Pricing is Rational Some investors believe real estate has become overpriced because cap rates seem numerically low when compared with historical rates. Cap rates do not, by themselves, sign...

Tags: Business Operations, IBM Corp., Real Estate

Company: American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Date: April 2004
American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
White Paper Real Estate as a Surrogate for Bonds: A Dynamic Asset Allocation View Twenty-five years of experience with high bond yields, combined with appreciation resulting from gradually declining interest rates, has produced an investor mind-set tha...

Tags: American Real Estate Society, Asset, Asset Allocation, Bond, Business Operations

Company: American Real Estate Society
Date: April 2004
American Real Estate Society
White Paper The Benefits of Real Estate Investment 2004 Update Real estate investment represents a significant part of many institutional portfolios. Since real estate is not directly traded on a centralized exchange, the physical re...

Tags: Benefit, Business Operations, Investment, Real Estate, Real Estate Investment

Company: University of Massachusetts
Date: February 2004
University of Massachusetts
White Paper Prepayment Risk of Public Housing Mortgages This paper examines the determinants of prepayment risk of mortgages for public housing, which are adjustable rate mortgages. An understanding of the prepayment risk of m...

Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Mortgages

Company: National University of Singapore
Date: January 2004
National University of Singapore
White Paper Reverse Exchanges: Can Benefit Real Property Owners The Internal Revenue Code provides an exception to the general rule that requires the recognition of gain or loss upon the sale or exchange of property. At a first readin...

Tags: Benefits, Exchange, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade

Company: Reed Elsevier
Date: December 2003
Reed Elsevier
White Paper Point of View: The Problem of Indoor Mold for Portfolio and Property Managers Indoor mold has arisen as a significant problem in the real estate industry over the last few years. It has gained increasing national media attention and become the subj...

Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Financial Planning, Huntsville

Company: University of Alabama in Huntsville
Date: November 2003
University of Alabama in Huntsville
White Paper The CFO Perspective on Corporate Real Estate Corporate real estate (CRE) is one of the largest items on the balance sheet, but one that often receives scant attention from the CFO. After all, this asset is typically...

Tags: Business Operations, CFO Publishing Corp., Corporate Real Estate, Financial Services, Real Estate

Company: CFO Publishing
Date: September 2003
CFO Publishing
White Paper International Evidence on Real Estate as a Portfolio Diversifier This paper provides an international comparison of the benefits of including real estate assets, both domestic and international, in mixed-asset portfolios. Data from sev...

Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate

Company: California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
Date: July 2003
California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
White Paper Master Technology Planning: Maximize The Return On Real Estate And Technology Investments When it comes to offering telecom services and investing in technology, multifamily property owners and managers are facing confusing and conflicting pressures in the cur...

Tags: Business Operations, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Residents, Reed Elsevier Inc.

Company: Reed Elsevier
Date: June 2003
Reed Elsevier
White Paper Project and Portfolio Management Decisions: A Framework and Body of Knowledge Model for Cycle Research Investors and portfolio managers have recognized the critical importance of real estate cycles, their pervasive and dynamic impacts on investment returns and risks, and t...

Tags: Business Operations, Illinois Institute Of Technology, Knowledge, Portfolio Management, Real Estate

Company: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: June 2003
Illinois Institute of Technology
White Paper REIT Selection and Portfolio Construction: Using Operating Efficiency as an Indicator of Performance A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) selection and portfolio construction criteria is developed based on REIT operating efficiency and pricing multiples (price-to-net as...

Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Investment, Performance, Real Estate

Company: City University
Date: June 2003
City University
White Paper Regional Models for Portfolio Diversification This research is an extension of earlier efforts to develop geographic diversification strategies based upon economic factors, particularly employment-related measures. A...

Tags: Benefits, Capacity, Human Resources, Management, Measure

Company: University of North Dakota
Date: June 2003
University of North Dakota
White Paper Agency Risks in Outsourcing Corporate Real Estate Functions This paper portrays that firms outsource business functions to focus on core competencies and cut operating expenses. However, companies must consider agency costs in det...

Tags: Agency, Business Operations, Corporate Real Estate, Financial Services, It Operations

Company: California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
Date: June 2003
California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
White Paper Pension-Plan Real Estate Investment in an Asset-Liability Framework This study explores the role of pension-plan real estate investment in an asset-liability framework. By assuming that the pension plan manager wishes to have asset, an as...

Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Business Operations, Investment, Operational Planning

Company: Real Estate Economics
Date: April 2003
Real Estate Economics
White Paper Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Performance of Optimal REIT Portfolios This study examines the out-of sample performance of equity real estate investment trust portfolios based on the NAREIT sector indices. The article examines the use of al...

Tags: American Real Estate Society, Business Operations, Finance, Investment, Portfolio

Company: American Real Estate Society
Date: February 2003
American Real Estate Society
White Paper Real Estate Investment in an Asset/Liability Modeling Context The role of real estate in a pension plan is examined using an asset/liability modeling framework. The study developed a representative liability model of a pension fund ...

Tags: Asset Management, Real Estate, Pension Plan, Operational Planning, Investment

Company: City University
Date: February 2003
City University
White Paper Estimation Of NOI Growth, Volatility And Clustering By MSA In this paper, the creation of metropolitan and property type indices of NOI is examined using repeat sales data from NCREIF. The advantage of creating such indices is th...

Tags: Clustering, Clustering Analysis, Volatility

Company: University of Southern California
Date: February 2003
University of Southern California
White Paper Quality Of The Business Environment Versus Quality Of Life: Do Firms And Households Like The Same Cities? This paper develops a new measure of “quality of the business environment” that complements existing measures of “quality of life”. An annual panel of these measures is c...

Tags: City, Environment, Human Resources, Payroll Solutions, Quality

Company: University of Southern California
Date: January 2003
University of Southern California
White Paper Portfolio Implications of Apartment Investing This study examines the portfolio implications of apartment investing. In particular, it concentrates on the sector’s relative stability, liquidity and current market out...

Tags: Apartment, Apartment Sector, California State University, Finance, Human Resources

Company: California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
Date: January 2003
California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
White Paper Momentum Effects And Mean Reversion In Real Estate Securities This article tests for the presence of both price continuation and price reversals in international real estate securities. The results reveal evidence of performance per...

Tags: Business Operations, California State University, Evidence, Human Resources, Performance

Company: California State University, Fullerton
Date: January 2003
California State University, Fullerton
White Paper T h e I m p a c t o f t h e R e v e n u e R e c o n c i l i a t i o n A c t o f 1 9 9 3 o n t h e P r i c i n g S t r u c t u r e o f E q u i t y R E I T s Tax legislation included in the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 made large-scale investments in equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) more desirable to institut...

Tags: Business Operations, Equity, Finance, Fullerton, Investment

Company: Fullerton
Date: January 2003
Fullerton
White Paper Diversifying into Real Estate: It’s a Good Thing Article suggests that the significant diversification benefits are possible through the addition of real estate to a portfolio of stocks and bonds. There is also evidence...

Tags: Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin

Company: University of Wisconsin System
Date: January 2003
University of Wisconsin System
White Paper Moral Hazard in Home Equity Conversion Home equity conversion as presently constituted or proposed usually does not deal well with the problem of moral hazard. Once homeowners know that the risk of poor market...

Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Mortgages, Investment, Hazard

Company: Real Estate Economics
Date: January 2003
Real Estate Economics
White Paper The Pricing of Seasoned Equity Offering : Evidence from REITs REITs have been a very active sector in the capital market over the last few years. This paper examines the pricing of seasoned equity offers. Underpricing depends on the...

Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate Economics, Real Estate, Pricing Strategy, Pricing

Company: Real Estate Economics
Date: January 2003
Real Estate Economics
White Paper The Role of Uncertainity in Investment: An Examination of Competing Investment Model Using Commercial Real Estate Data Neo-classical investment decision criteria suggest that only the systematic component of the total risk affect the rate of investment, as channeled through the built-asse...

Tags: Business Operations, Commercial Real Estate, Finance, Investment, Investment Decision

Company: Real Estate Economics
Date: January 2003
Real Estate Economics
White Paper Portland Real Estate Pros See Glimmers of Hope Retail continues to outperform other real estate sectors in nearly all major markets, and single-tenant retail buildings. The Portland office market is showing signs that...

Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Tenant

Company: The Business Journal
Date: January 2003
The Business Journal
White Paper An Analysis of the Cross Section of Returns for EREITS Using a varying-Risk Beta Model This paper investigates the relationship between equity REIT returns and beta. No significant is found between returns and beta using a constant beta measured over all re...

Tags: Analysis, Bear Market, Business Operations, Equity, Finance

Company: The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
Date: January 2003
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
White Paper Seeing the Big Picture REITs have outperformed over the past 20 years, but will broader market, demographic and economic factors allow those results to hold over the next two decades? There is ...

Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Industry, Investment, Real Estate

Company: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
Date: January 2003
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

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