In a unit trust environment with little appetite for specialist funds, the success of the property sector has been an anomaly.
With R39.6bn under management it is substantially larger than the specialist equity sectors combined. Property shares seemed to offer a combination of equity-like returns with bond-like volatility. In the end they could not escape their age-old correlation with bonds and as SA’s sovereign debt ratings fell so did the prices of the property sector...
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