Real Assets

What are real assets?

Real assets are physical or tangible assets, such as infrastructure, real estate, natural resources and precious metals, whose value is based on their physical properties or utility.

Infrastructure

Assets necessary for a society to function, such as bridges, airports, electrical grids, water supply and telecommunications

Real Estate

Real estate

Commercial and residential assets around the world, including retail stores, office buildings, apartments, hotels and factories

Commodities

Raw materials including agricultural goods like wheat and coffee, energy resources like oil and gasoline, and metals like gold and copper

The value of real assets

As a very broad group representing different sectors and industries, real assets have historically offered attractive benefits to investors, including providing solid returns, overall portfolio diversification and acting as a hedge to inflation.

Solid historical returns

Portfolio diversification*

Inflation hedge

Our solutions

With 50 years of real asset experience, we are one of the world's largest alternatives managers with $123 billion in assets under management and an expansive suite of investment solutions (as of 12/31/23).

Fund	Ticker	Product
DWS RREEF Global Real Estate Securities Fund	RRGAX	Mutual Fund
DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities Fund	RRRAX	Mutual Fund
RREEF Property Trust	ZRPTAX	REIT
Xtrackers International Real Estate ETF	HAUZ	Exchange-Traded Fund

Real Assets