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October, 2021
LCIV completes double fund closure
LCIV has announced the closure of two funds in as many months over the summer. The London Fund, designed to provide investment in the capital’s housing and infrastructure, successfully completed a second close, securing an additional £45 million investment from the London Borough of Haringey Pension Fund. The latest investment takes the total ...
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October, 2021
Morgan Stanley raises $3.1 billion for real estate fund
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has raised $3.1 billion for its latest global opportunistic real estate fund. Fundraising for the North Haven Real Estate Fund X Global (G10) exceeded the original target. The previous fund, North Haven Real Estate Fund IX Global, raised $2.73 billion in December 2017. A group of public and private pension funds, ...
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October, 2021
Lloyds launches Citra in private landlord diversification play
Lloyds Banking Group has launched Citra Living, a vehicle to enable it to become a major player in the private rental sector and expand the availability of quality and affordable homes in the UK. One in five UK households rent privately and demand is set to increase over the next five years. Changes to the regulations and tax rules will force many ...
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October, 2021
Plan for net zero or suffer huge depreciation, says report
Commercial property without plans to slash carbon emissions will soon plummet in value, warns a report on net-zero initiatives for UK commercial property market valuations. The joint report, produced by new real estate stock exchange IPSX and sustainability data and consulting firm Carbon Intelligence, factor in UK government commitments to a 78% reduction ...
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October, 2021
Infrastructure investing goes from strength to surge
Infrastructure investment is surging, having shown its resilience during the pandemic. It is also seen as a possible substitute for some fixed income allocations at a time when the negative yielding debt exceeded $16.5 trillion at the beginning of August. Many strategies within infrastructure are also focused on sustainable investment strategies through ...
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October, 2021
Fears of Chinese crackdown on business an overreaction
Fears of the Chinese authorities’ regulatory crackdown on big businesses is an overreaction, and more damaging than the new regulations, according to Jimmy Chen, portfolio manager of the Comgest Growth China fund, based in Hong Kong. The Chinese regulatory environment has not undergone significant change and many of the new or rumoured regulations will ...
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October, 2021
Specialist launches fund to exploit “fourth industrial revolution”
Specialist investor Gravis is targeting what it calls the “fourth industrial revolution” with a fund launch that invests in digital infrastructure. Gravis Advisory, a subsidiary of infrastructure and real estate investment group Gravis Capital Management, has launched the Gravis Digital Infrastructure Income fund targeting a 3% annual dividend ...
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October, 2021
LPFA adopts net zero commitments
The London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) has its commitment to bring carbon emissions across the LPFA fund to a target based net-zero goal by 2050, with interim goals set for 2030. As part of this project, LPFA will adopt the Paris Aligned Investment Initiative Net Zero Asset Owner Commitment in line with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change ...
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August, 2021
Pantheon launches real estate investment strategy
Pantheon has announced its expansion into real estate with the launch of a new strategy that is being developed as an extension of Pantheon’s established Global Infrastructure and Real Assets platform. It will initially focus on secondaries opportunities and will look to leverage the firm’s broader experience in secondaries across private equity, ...
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August, 2021
Sustainable funds more than doubled in the last three years
Sustainable funds is the fastest growing segment in European asset management, according to a new report. The first annual European Sustainable Investment Funds Study by Morningstar and management consultancy zeb, with Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) found that in the past three years, net assets in sustainable fund products had more ...
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