tailieunhanh - Alternative Investment Opportunities In Real Estate For Individual Investors

As this is a general edition of The SAR Activity Review, readers will note that the articles cover a wide range of topics. However, to the extent that there is a unifying theme, we feature several articles that aim to address some issues raised during the outreach initiative to depository institutions with assets under $5 billion that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is continuing to conduct this year. The Trends & Analysis section begins with an in-depth look by FinCEN’s Office of Regulatory Analysis (ORA) at SARs filed by firms in the securities and futures industries on suspicious activity. | Alternative Investment Opportunities in Real Estate for Individual Investors by Jeffrey D. Harper Finance and International Business Saint Louis University Submitted to the Program in Real Estate Development in Conjunction with the Center for Real Estate in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Real Estate Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 2011 2011 Jeffrey D. Harper All rights reserved The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. Signature of Author__ Center for Real Estate July 29 2011 Certified b y__ W. Tod McGrath Lecturer Center for Real Estate Thesis Supervisor Accepted by_ David Geltner Chair Interdepartmental Degree Program in Real Estate 1 Alternative Investment Opportunities in Real Estate for Individual Investors by Jeffrey D. Harper Submitted to the Program in Real Estate Development in Conjunction with the Center for Real Estate on July 29 2011 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Real Estate Development ABSTRACT This thesis will evaluate whether an unsatisfied need to access private commercial market real estate investment opportunities exists on the behalf of individual investors via their Individual Retirement Accounts IRAs and 401 k s and if so what the optimal investment structure is to accommodate that need given certain investment parameters. Institutional Investors with few exceptions maintain some percentage of their investment portfolios in commercial real estate assets. That allocation to real estate assets can be achieved in any combination of the following .