I was wondering if anyone else has considered adding real estate funds to add a bit of diversification to the portfolio (now that bonds are still not very interesting)
I mean funds like patrimonium or bonhote with direct ownership of the properties.
The way I see it there’re some pros:
Diversification (that of an alternative investment)
Tax benefits: no tax on wealth/ withholding for the subscriber and the fund gets taxed with a lower rate
Properties in sought after locations
Then some cons:
Cost. High TER (0.70/ 0.80 compared to for instance 0.09 of VT)
Not very liquid
What do you think ? Does it make any sense to include them in the portfolio ?
Yes, it is a good idea to have real estate in general in your portfolio. You can buy them instead of bonds, but they are between stocks and bonds, so if you do that you should also buy less stocks as well.
The funds with tax advantages are not better than other real estate funds if you don’t pay much wealth tax or income tax so most normal people should consider the ~35 funds and not only the one with special tax status.
I personally don’t consider the TER because I use the tax value, NAV (growth) and the dividend to evaluate them.
The liquidity is not that bad actually. Sure it is not UBS but you can sell them almost everyday.
The price of those fund is quite high at the moment (I sold part of my Bonhote position the other day) and most of the real estate “Black Friday offers” are stocks from the SPI and not funds. But the funds can’t have more than 33% debts except on the first year(s?) so I guess that explain part of it.
Do you know of / can you share some references to some good resources where one could start learning more about real estate funds (not even necessarily Swiss)?
Are those REITs you are talking about or these are set up differently?
I buy them via IB. A lot of them were missing so I asked them to add them and it usually takes less than 24h. When CT was my only broker, I asked them If they could add them. They said no eventhough I pointed out that they already had some available… “Swiss premium customer service”
I had a look at the latest report of the Bonhôte fund (in French) and… it seems that it’s earning very little money! It’s probably due to the fact that they are using very little leverage (around 20% apparently).
They have about 1 billion worth of assets and they generate 10 millions in earnings. That’s a PE of 100. Their ROIC (return on invested capital), what is actually the intrinsic yield of the fund, is 4.2%.
I like the possibility of getting your dividend in additional shares to avoid taxes but overall it doesn’t seem like a good investment at all… or maybe I’m not getting something.
You also missed the fact that it is the half-year report. So you can double the earnings. What’s more the value of the buildings is increasing (11.4 millions in that report)
You’re right, I didn’t realize it was only a 6 months report, good catch.
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