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Orchard Street launches new ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ office space at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two new lettings at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden, alongside unveiling its new offering of ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ accommodation which serves the shorter-term commercial lettings market, a third of which is already under offer.
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UK high yield turns a corner as no-deal Brexit worries fade
A UK general election, which may resolve the Brexit impasse, is just over five weeks away, while the no-deal threat has receded. In this more positive environment, UK high yield bonds - which have been shunned by investors in recent years - look increasingly attractive.
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Building Your DGF for the Journey Ahead
Too many Diversified Growth Funds (DGFs) have left UK investors disappointed with performance. In this paper, we show how a DGF can be designed with clear objectives, constructed using guidelines that are genuinely outcome-oriented, and then managed to achieve its objectives.
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Cool Heads: where next for sterling?
In this episode of Cool Heads, we look at how the pound has continued to whipsaw as Brexit deadlines come and go, tracking every political twist and turn. But that is just the short-term story. The long-term driver for sterling should be the prospects for the UK economy.
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Orchard Street completes repositioning of West London industrial assets, doubling rental income
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed 12 separate asset management initiatives across 150,000 sq ft of multi-let industrial accommodation at its 215,000 sq ft West Drayton, London estates. As a result, both the contracted rental income and average lease lengths have more than doubled over the last 18 months.
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Core Matters Investment Returns: A 5-year perspective
2019 has seen huge inflows into Fixed Income (FI) funds and outflows from Equities. From a medium-term return perspective this makes no sense. The formidable demand for safe assets reflects cyclical and structural forces (e.g. ageing). No matter the economic scenario, FI returns over the next five years ...
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DekaBank arranges financing secured against 4 Cannon Street, EC4M
DekaBank has acted as Sole Arranger and Underwriter on a £95.63m four-year term loan secured on 4 Cannon Street, London, EC4M (“4 Cannon Street”).
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BOE holds steady but case for rate cut is compelling
The Bank of England (BoE) left rates unchanged at its September meeting - the last before the October deadline for the UK to leave the European Union - despite cutting its growth forecast for the UK economy in the third quarter of 2019 to 0.2 per cent. Due to this anaemic growth and Brexit uncertainty, I believe the case for cutting rates is now compelling and I expect the BoE to draw the same conclusion by the end of the year.
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The Power of Emotions: Responsible Investment as a Motivator for Generation DC
Study of attitudes to pensions and responsible investment.
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How long will you live and what does it mean for your investments?
Latest life expectancy data shows that your money will need to last a lot longer than you might be thinking.
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UK Real Estate Outlook - Edition 2H19
As the retail correction has fully taken hold, total returns from UK commercial property have slowed markedly delivering just 0.85% in 1H19, based on the quarterly MSCI Index. Outside the retail sector, occupational markets are generally holding up quite well, however investment markets remain very subdued as political uncertainty deters activity. We may see a bounce-back in investor demand should a deal be reached with the EU, but the recent change of Prime Minister and confrontational rhetoric which followed has made that outcome increasingly unlikely.
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Flashforward: Drawing Parallels With 1999/2000
Investors in the UK and overseas are adopting extreme positioning in their hunt for defensive growth. In doing so the elastic has become very stretched and a sharp rotation could be overdue. This market dynamic is reminiscent of 1999/2000 whereby ‘old economy’ stocks are discarded in favour of ‘new economy’ ones.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q2 2019
There is growing evidence to suggest that the UK economy slowed in the second quarter, the ONS recorded a 0.3%m/m rise in GDP in May, which partially reversed the 0.4%m/m contraction in April. The upturn in the monthly rate was driven by a recovery in car production which declined by 45% in April after factories temporarily shut down production around the original Brexit date.
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New British PM: Where next for Brexit?
Boris Johnson becoming leader of the Conservative party puts an end to a drawn-out leadership contest. But the new prime minister’s options on Brexit remain broadly the same as his predecessor’s. Our eyes remain firmly on the pound, which has fallen sharply against the dollar and euro this month. Meanwhile, with UK stocks cheap relative to peers, this period may go down as one of the all-time best opportunities to invest in UK equities.
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UBS AG Relocates To Lothbury’s Four Hardman Street, Manchester
Lothbury Investment Management Limited has let 3,300 sq ft of office space at Four Hardman Street in Spinningfields, Manchester to UBS AG.
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DekaBank arranges financing in Birmingham
DekaBank has acted as Sole Arranger and Underwriter on a £90.48m five-year term loan secured on Priory Court and The Lewis Building, Birmingham. The loan is being made available to a Property Unit Trust managed by Gulf Islamic investments (“GII”).
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Lothbury Completes £56M Purchase Of Prime Southwark Hotel
Lothbury Investment Management has completed the acquisition of the Travelodge hotel in Union Street, Southwark, London for £56.3m, as part of a segregated mandate for a major UK pension fund.
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CDI: Does it make sense for UK DB schemes?
Soraya Kazziha, PIMCO’s Head of EMEA Client Solutions and Analytics, Rene Martel, PIMCO’s Head of Retirement Solutions and Michael Burns, Head of the UK and Ireland Institutional Sales Team.
