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Institutional Portfolios: Diversification through Farmland Investment
Author(s) -
Lins David A.,
Sherrick Bruce J.,
Venigalla Aravind
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
real estate economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1540-6229
pISSN - 1080-8620
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6229.00596
Subject(s) - economics , diversification (marketing strategy) , real estate , bond , skewness , econometrics , variance (accounting) , estate , investment (military) , smoothing , financial economics , business , finance , mathematics , statistics , accounting , marketing , politics , political science , law
This article demonstrates that farmland can enhance the overall performance of institutional portfolios which are currently dominated by stocks, bonds, and business real estate. Unlike previous articles on farmland returns, this article addresses the issue of “smoothing bias” associated with appraisal‐based farmland returns. Improved measures of income returns to farmland are also used in developing the estimates of optimal portfolios. Parametric testing revealed that farmland continues to enter the optimal portfolios even for large increases in the variance or for large reductions in the annual returns to farmland.