Graham Bentley: Why property is such an unsuitable asset for open-ended funds

Ongoing estimates by property valuers no more robust than credit ratings

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Selling a property fund earlier this year had nothing to do with Brexit, the outlook for commercial property or the global economic landscape, says Graham Bentley - just past experience

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana Among the wreckage of the referendum on Brexit, fractious advisers continue to argue their Europhobe/Europhile positions from the comfortingly anonymous convenience of the trade mag comments column, or to bark via the brevity of Twitter. Walloping one another on digital media over Britain's - thereby carelessly overlooking Northern Ireland's - bright future/collapse into chaos, too many comments served only to broadcast varying degrees of amateur economics posing as investment insight. This became par...

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