That pushed the market-value component of the index to a two-year high of 855.6 (the actual peak was on Jan. 28 at 856.3).

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During the early years of the financial downturn, the value of high-risk, high-return real-estate funds fell 54% from their peak at the end of 2007 to the bottom in 2009, according to an index tracked by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.

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