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A significant amount of commercial real estate investments is held in the form of large real estate funds. These funds typically range in size from $50 million to over $50 billion. Many of the large office buildings, regional malls, apartment buildings, and industrial parks in the country are held in these funds. Some funds invest in senior housing, student housing, parking, healthcare, and even farm and timberland. The managers of these funds are large institutional investment management firms that manage the properties on behalf of wealthy investors, pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds. The purpose of this course is to understand how these funds are organized, how they arrive at an investment strategy, and how to evaluate how they have actually performed relative to that strategy. Case studies and actual industry data will be used to reinforce the concepts discussed in the course.