Our research philosophy

CEREFunds' research objective is to fully inform the company's strategy decisions at the corporate level, for each fund we manage and with respect to individual assets. Our approach is to use the best analytical tools available to augment the insight and judgment of CEREFunds's team.

CEREFunds Research assesses risks and opportunities for all the market sectors in which we operate by combining access to local data, analysis and forecasts with the findings of our own in-house research and forecasting programme. CEREFunds uses the results, together with the insights of our local real estate teams, to generate a projected return for each asset which is balanced by our assessment of its risk. CEREFunds's approach to risk assessment emphasises the role of research-based inputs but uses them in a flexible way – the techniques used vary from iterative simulations of cash-flows to an analysis of the historic returns to individual risk factors depending on each situation.

Our research uses the most well-known, and some less well-known, information sources in each market to keep our view as current as possible. Our research team ensures consistency between the local views and helps keep the standard of research tools used at CEREFunds at the highest level of quality. We believe that we can deliver the optimal benefit to CEREFunds and its partners by this blending of local with international and of analytical research with the views of practitioners.