Insights
Why Surplus LGPS Funds Should Address the Housing Shortage
Mike Weston, an independent consultant, professional pension trustee and former CEO of LGPS Central, highlights that LGPS funds are in a strong surplus position, estimated at around £147bn, at a time of major pooling reforms. This creates an opportunity to redeploy capital more strategically, supported by increased governance capacity and long term investment horizons.
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Webinars
13 May 2020
In a volatile world is investing in index linked longer leases too good to be true?
Alex Price and Rupert Sheldon discuss Fiera Real Estate’s long income strategy and how it has been affected by COVID-19, paying particular attention to: The benefits of investing in real estate assets with a long-term lease. While long income strategies are difficult to execute How long income real estate improves risk-adjusted returns on a diversified […]
Videos
11 May 2020
COVID-19 UK Real Estate Market Commentary
Markets around the world continue to experience disruption from COVID-19 and the subsequent economic fallout. The resultant human, economic and financial impacts are both significant and ongoing and perhaps not surprisingly, the UK commercial real estate market is not immune from this Fiera Real Estate’s CEO (UK), Alex Price, has laid out the likely short […]
Videos
17 February 2020
Post-Brexit Opportunities in Real Estate
The UK’s reputation as a place of business has suffered in recent years, thanks to Brexit. But despite the gloomy headlines – and the gloomy weather – opportunity is returning to the market and the outlook for real estate after Brexit is positive. The fundamentals that have long drawn investors to the UK remain. Other […]
Videos
4 February 2020
Prospero, Ansty Launch
Manse Opus are developing one of the most significant new business parks in the UK and with a prime position east of Coventry, and the Park is already attracting multi-national businesses to the scheme. Uniquely positioned both geographically and demographically, Prospero Ansty offers businesses the perfect environment to grow. Coventry and the wider region have […]
Whitepapers
25 January 2020
UK Core Long-Income Commercial Real Estate
FOREWORD by Rupert Sheldon, Head of Core REIM UK Defined Benefit (“DB”) Pension Schemes in the UK have traditionally sought to generate required levels of investment return via investing across a balanced strategy, including bonds, equities and alternative assets. These typically include private market strategies such as real estate, private equity and more recently infrastructure. […]