Principal Global Investors has made funds available in Austria as it begins to expand into the country from neighbouring Germany where the firm has had a presence since 2003.
Principal Global Investors has made funds available in Austria as it begins to expand into the country from neighbouring Germany where the firm has had a presence since 2003.
Barings Real Estate has made the latest in a series of “firsts” for the firm as it adds new asset to its real estate portfolio.
Aviva Investors has appointed a head of continental Europe asset management for its property investment business, which is part of a real assets strategy launched last year.
UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) has bought outright Portugal’s second largest supplier of gas to homes as part of its infrastructure investment strategy aimed at generating stable cash flows.
Legal & General Real Assets is to provide £200 million (€228 million) in long-term debt to finance the purchasing of new rolling stock for the Wales & Borders train franchise.
The real estate and private markets team (REPM) from the asset management arm of Swiss banking giant, UBS, has launched a long income UK property fund with an initial commitment of £90 million (€103 million).
Global megatrends are re-shaping the world economic order. From mass urbanisation, to the rise of the global middle classes, aging populations, technological trends and the shift of economic power from the West to the emerging world, all pose major implications for the built environment and the long run demand for real estate.
UK fund flows in December 2018 look set to be remembered as their worst level for just over two years due to market volatility.
Global markets bade farewell to a torrid 2018 which saw the worst year in a decade for many of them following rising US-China trade tensions, interest rate rises and high-profile corporate scandals.
A former Aberdeen Standard Investments property investment manager has joined Kames Capital.
