Fund services

Developers need to think ahead, says development finance provider Maslow Capital’s director for portfolio management and ESG

Yet building an effective digital capital raising tool faces steep challenges, writes Keith Button

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is just one of the ESG-focused standards to consider when choosing a domicile for your real estate fund.

A handful of jurisdictions continue to dominate the market for fund domiciles. Simon Watkins asks whether rivals can ever take their crowns.

The top destinations keep their place, but real estate fund managers are increasingly choosing jurisdictions through an ESG lens.

PIMCO’s acquisition of Columbia Property Trust led to the dissolution of the latter’s purchase of Normandy Real Estate Partners, showing how quickly the pandemic changed everything.

In the magazine: The big three domiciles still dominate, but managers show signs of expanding their horizons; Keynote interviews with Jersey Finance, Alter Domus and Apex Group; Plus much more…

Regulatory changes, and the jurisdiction’s strong existing investor and manager base, continue to support activity, say Alter Domus’s Patrick McCullagh and Matthew Molton.

The London-based manager has landed commitments from two UK pensions as the seed investors in the vehicle, whose predecessor raised £450m.

The new hire will lead the firm’s investments in the space, including an expansion from the UK to continental Europe later this year.