Agricultural Investing: Risk and Return

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Annual, Permanent and Aggregate U.S. Farmland
  • The data for this series was computed using the respective National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Farmland Indices.
International Equities
  • The data for this series was derived from the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International Index (MSCI EAFE) and includes non-U.S. stocks, including those in Europe, Australasia and the Far East.
U.S. Aggregate Bonds
U.S. Commercial Real Estate
  • The data for this series was derived from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Property Index.
U.S. Equities
  • The data for this series was computed using the Standard & Poors 500 Index (S&P 500) and measures the market-value-weighted performance of 500 large capitalization U.S. stocks which are traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX exchanges.
U.S. T-Bills
  • The data for this series was derived from the performance of 90-day Treasury Bills auctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury (UST).
U.S. Timberland
  • The data for this series was computed using the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Timberland Index.