REAL ESTATE AND PRIVATE ASSETS INVESTMENT ADVISORY
Spek Advisory FZE is a fully independent advisory company. We are passionate about helping our clients to increase their private asset portfolio return. We have all the tools and expertise available to improve our client’s risk-return profile and determine, review and/or strengthen your optimal private equity, infrastructure and real estate investment strategy. In addition, we are able to support our clients, typically institutional investors and investment managers, with investment research and strategic insights.
Specialisms
Optimising private asset investment strategy
Set-up and/or review of investment strategy of private assets and real estate in particular. The methodology that we use for the set-up of an investment strategy, consists of 7 steps and aims to translate the objectives of the investor to a specific private asset portfolio.
Performance optimisation
A very important role within portfolio management is the performance optimisation. This includes benchmark selection and performance attribution analysis, and aims at maximizing performance within the appropriate risk budget. Full understanding of these concepts should lead to the ability to create outperformance.
Portfolio risk analysis
Because data is scarce and the market is relatively intransparent, traditional risk analysis, especially in comparison with public markets, is challenging. With the right set of data and knowledge, it is possible to provide valuable insights in portfolio risks. Due to the non-linearity of the returns, a simulation based assessment and analysis is often even more compelling.
Investment strategy research
Independent advisory board member
Obtain valuable independent investment support based on long-term experience with institutional investors and investment managers, member of many investment committees and industry association committees.
Maarten van der Spek
Maarten van der Spek has over 23 years of experience in the real estate and private assets investment industry. He has worked for leading real estate investment management companies, and for some of the largest institutional investors in the world. In all roles he was responsible for the company’s research and strategy.
His focus has always been on helping institutional investors understanding private assets, and private real estate more specifically. As these markets are by definition not transparent and not efficient, he is always pushing for improving transparency and finding competitive advantages by pursuing more standardization and conducting research and analytics. In that perspective, Maarten’s research contributed to receiving his PhD in 2018 from the Tilburg University in the field of indirect private real estate.
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