M&G becomes third asset manager to suspend its property fund
M&G Investments has temporarily suspended trading in the shares of the £4.4bn M&G Property Portfolio and its feeder fund.
M&G Investments has temporarily suspended trading in the shares of the £4.4bn M&G Property Portfolio and its feeder fund.
Asset managers with large UK property funds are weighing up their responses to a spike in redemptions.
Standard Life Investments has suspended all trading in its UK Real Estate Fund following an increase in redemption requests.
Columbia Threadneedle announced Friday it has decided to switch the pricing basis on its £1.4bn Threadneedle UK Property Authorised Investment Fund (PAIF) and Threadneedle UK Property Authorised Trust from offer to bid.
There is a strong case to be made that British property funds have had their latest spell of time in the sun and have begun a significant downswing, but the situation seems more nuanced than that.
Morningstar has fully exited from the property investments in its active managed portfolios, the company said.
Investors’ insatiable appetite for income held sway in terms of fund flows through the ISA season, according to data from FundsNetwork.
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Property used to be an alternative investment, a diversifier to equities, bonds and cash but as external influences push investor sentiment further south, it is struggling to even be this.
Volatility has meant that no investment trusts were launched over the first quarter of this year, while money that was raised was focused around property and infrastructure trusts, according to QuotedData.
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