New property fund targets student houses
Luxembourg Fund Partners has launched a new fund targeting investments in student houses in prime markets such as Edinburgh and Cambridge.
Property
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Losses for UK property investors
UK property fund investors have lost an average 11.4% over the past five years, according to a study conducted by Castle Trust.
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mandg skirts 20 percent tax property
M&G Investments has taken advantage of the property authorised investment fund (PAIF) structure first introduced in 2008 to make the £2bn M&G Property Portfolio more tax efficient for investors.
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equities real estate are asset calls
Rather than 2013 being a continuation of a risk on/risk off approach, Keith Skeoch suggests this year investors will start to be more precise about where risk will be rewarded, with a greater empahsis on property and equities.
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building confidence
The problems of gearing in listed and closed-ended property funds are well known, but new funds and structures can offer robust alternatives to the more traditional property funds.
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hayes returns as nicholas leaves first state
Andrew Nicholas has resigned from First State in Australia and is to be replaced by the returning Stephen Hayes.
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schroders recruits head of pan european property
Tony Smedley has been recruited by Schroders to run its pan-European property team.
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brazil govt-backed housing project through sicav
BGB Weston has launched its Brazilian Social Property Fund to take advantage of a housing project backed by the Brazilian government to the tune of 65bn.
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investors facing lack of alternatives
The problem with alternatives is that they have not always lived up to their name in offering real diversification away from mainstream asset classes.
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hearthstone first residential property fund
The FSA has given approval to Hearthstone to launch the first regulated residential property fund in the UK.
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case for residential in a multi asset portfolio
Chris Down argues asset allocators should choose now to stop missing out on what has so far been forty years of a positive return profile from residential property.
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first property plans further uk fund
Commercial property specialist First Property plans to launch Fprop Sterling Income Fund, a mirror to its fully invested UK PPP fund.
