There is also a good dataset for open-end real estate funds. Over the last 10 years, investors in this asset class have been able to achieve a higher average annual return than on investments in equity funds (see Fig. 16). However, compared with most bond funds, open-end real estate funds come off worse. This relationship has also generally been maintained over longer periods of up to 20 years: however it is probably also be affected by the poor performance of the stock market in the last few years. On a 30-year average, equity funds with an investment focus in Germany.
