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In his latest commentary for Property Week, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate discussed the potential of pooling UK pension funds to enable investment into high-quality assets central to the UK’s ESG agenda. Larger capital allocations could accelerate the modernisation of the built environment and address key areas like affordable housing and healthcare.  The […]

In his most recent article for Pensions & Investments, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate, speaks about the risk exposure and possible distortion to the real estate market, if governments start to interfere with pension fund investment strategies.

Pension funds are among the most influential capital providers globally, so it’s no surprise governments with lackluster GDP growth are desperate to unlock them. As part of a broader supply-side reform strategy, pension funds' patience, taken together with their favourable allocations mix (notably overweight fixed income and liability-hedging assets), opens a wealth of possibilities to invest — directly and indirectly — in expenditure-heavy development projects across a spread of asset categories.

In his most recent article for Pensions & Investments, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate, speaks about the risk exposure and possible distortion to the real estate market, if governments start to interfere with pension fund investment strategies. Pension funds are among the most influential capital providers globally, so it’s no surprise governments with […]

Fiera Real Estate and Wrenbridge have agreed a £17.5m development facility with Alpha Property Lending to part fund the construction of the prime 84,000 sq ft logistics scheme, Boxyard located in Hayes, Green Street News can reveal.

Fiera Real Estate and Wrenbridge have secured a £17.5 mln loan from Alpha Property Lending to part fund their new logistics facility, in Hayes, UK.

Fund managers are grappling with what is now a sustained fundraising drought

Fiera Real Estate UK Limited (“Fiera”) and Wrenbridge are pleased to announce they have agreed a £17.5m development facility with Alpha Property Lending (“Alpha”) to part fund the construction of their prime 84,000 sq ft logistics scheme, Boxyard located in Hayes. Fiera and Wrenbridge secured planning in December last year for four high-spec units ranging […]

Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate, speaks to Guy-Montague Jones from Green Street News about the evolving tactics required for fundraising in the current market.  Fund managers are grappling with what is now a sustained fundraising drought. The total amount of equity raised last year was the lowest since 2014, according to Preqin, and this […]