The real estate fund has continued to grow through the amendment of laws and regulations several times and the accumulation of many experiences. But the size of real estate funds was at the level of 7% of total funds as of the end of March 2014, and ...
The real estate fund has continued to grow through the amendment of laws and regulations several times and the accumulation of many experiences. But the size of real estate funds was at the level of 7% of total funds as of the end of March 2014, and at a slight level, 0.4% of total funds, based on public offering real estate funds. The real estate fund is the system introduced to encourage many small investors to invest in real estate, but the public offering real estate fund has not been vitalized in Korea. Therefore, it is necessary to vitalize the public offering real estate fund so that the real estate fund may spread to the base of many small investors.
To identify what has contributed to impediments to the vitalization of real estate fund, the consciousness survey concerning the propensity to invest and the real estate fund was conducted for ordinary investors, major investors in public offering real estate funds. And it proposed the scheme for vitalization of real estate funds. Results of the questionnaire research showed that the ordinary investors had a poor knowledge of the real estate fund and had a few experiences of investment on it. Analysis showed that the reason was the lack of publicity and of diverse products reflecting ordinary investors' needs. Therefore, it is necessary to engage in active publicity activity and to develop diverse real estate fund products reflecting ordinary investors' needs. This study presented the real estate fund vitalization scheme in these two senses.
In terms of publicity activity, it is necessary to engage in the active publicity of related bodies first of all. As shown in this questionnaire research, it is necessary to engage in planned and systematic publicity activity in consideration of the age, the investable amount, the size of assets subject to publicity. For this purpose, it is necessary to place the experienced manpower who completed specialized education of the real estate fund in the institution related to its publicity and sale. Second, it is necessary to reinforce channel for publicity and sale of real estate funds. And it is necessary to reinforce the differentiated publicity channel considering age and vocation and to strengthen the sale channel preferred by ordinary investors as shown in this questionnaire research.
In terms of the development of the real estate fund product, ordinary investors' needs are divided into stability and liquidity, namely, the Real Estate Convertible Option and the Advanced Redemption Option. Therefore, this study reviewed and proposed the real estate convertible option and the advanced redemption option in terms of product development. First, the real estate convertible option is the option that the investor can convert the invested amount into the real estate when the loss occurs in the investment principal due to the poor performance of the fund at its liquidation. It is possible to distribute invested real estate itself to the investors at the time of fund liquidation by the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act, but it is reviewed that there has been no case that the real estate has been distributed. Practical legal and financial review is required, but the development of a new real estate fund product like the real estate convertible option is judged to contribute to the vitalization of investment in the real estate fund as it would be an advantage differently from securities and bond funds to the ordinary investors. Second, the advanced redemption option is the authority for ordinary investors to resell the fund at a given interval after setting the real estate fund. The real estate fund is basically close-end in an obligatory form in the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act. But seeing that liquidity is a determinant of important investment from a position of ordinary investors, it is necessary to make an institutional improvement and practical examination of it.