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German vehicles’ performance improved slightly to 0.13% in Q1

The Q1 2024 performance of the INREV German Vehicles Index improved slightly to 0.13%, up from 0.05% in Q4 2023. Capital growth improved by 60 bps to -0.37% at the end of Q1 2024.

This release includes 206 funds with a combined GAV of €192.1 billion as at the end of Q1 2024.

Key highlights:

  • After reporting the first negative performance in over ten years in Q4 2023, Spezialfonds delivered another quarter of negative returns in Q1 2024 (-0.29%).
  • At 0.19%, Europe excluding Germany focused funds outperformed all other geographical strategies tracked by the Index for the first time since Q4 2012.
  • At 0.40%, retail focused funds included in the INREV German Vehicles Index outperformed the other single sector specialists for the first time since Q3 2017.
  • After being the best performing single sector in Q4 (0.23%), industrial/logistics slid into negative in Q1, posting a -0.10% total return.

View a detailed analysis via the German Vehicles Index Analysis Tool or download the report, Excel and snapshots below.

German Vehicles Quarterly Index  

Last updated on 20 Mar 2025