The power of private real assets

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Private real assets are a powerful source of diversification for institutional investors. Private investments in the relatively illiquid categories of real assets — farmland, timberland, infrastructure and commercial real estate — have exhibited low or negative correlations to stocks and bonds. For the past three decades, real assets have generated higher returns than traditional investments, with significantly lower volatility.