All United Kingdom articles
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Ready for take-off…? Exploring opportunities in the travel sector
Manager of the Premier Miton UK Value Opportunities Fund and Premier Miton UK Focus Fund, Matt Tillett, and assistant fund manager. Mike Shrives, look at where they are finding value opportunities in the travel sector.
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Is small cap M&A the catalyst investors have been waiting for?
Paul Marriage Fund manager of the Tellworth UK Smaller Companies Fund discusses the recent wave in M&A among UK small caps and the strong message this sends about the sector.
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Identifying opportunity and delivering student accommodation at scale in Europe’s most undersupplied markets
PBSA continues to offer an attractive yield premium compared to the private rental sector, despite offering enhanced growth.
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Shifting Institutional Property Portfolios: Evolution or Revolution?
The composition of institutional investors’ property portfolios has dramatically changed over the past few decades. This is a reflection of wider societal shifts, given that the property industry plays a key role in accommodating changes to how we live, work and play. In particular, long-term changes from shifting demographics to the adoption of new innovations all have a major influence on investors’ objectives—and in turn potential investment outcomes.
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Spectrum Q3 2024: Marvellous medicine
Second only to AI for its ability to generate investor hype, the biotech sector offers opportunity and risk in equal measure. Read our latest Spectrum report to learn why our portfolio managers believe the investment case for life sciences is more than skin-deep.
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Real Estate House View: United Kingdom - Second half-vear 2024
Economic discourse shifted over the second quarter, following the announcement of an early UK general election on 4 July. Polls were largely suggestive of a landslide victory for Labour. Consequently, the announcement of a Labour win had little impact on financial markets, with sterling, equity markets, and gilt yields broadly unchanged.
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How UK equities have performed in rate-cutting cycles
The BoE has started cutting interest rates—what does this mean for the UK equity market? Franklin Templeton Institute’s Chris Galipeau and Lukasz Kalwak explore prior rate-cutting cycles for answers.
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Sainsbury’s case study
Following research published by Oxfam on the supply chain human and labour rights risks that UK food retailers were exposed to, we engaged with Sainsbury’s to identify and manage these risks.
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A circular economy approach to protecting the ozone layer
Pension schemes can play a key role in shaping the future by investing in private markets, while providing members access to a broad spectrum of innovative companies on a mission to make a difference. Here we look at how one business is providing key solutions to protect the ozone layer by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in refrigeration while actively promoting the circular economy across domestic and industrial processes.
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No winners in the Thames Water travails
Whatever angle you look at things from the prospects for future investment in the UK water sector don’t look good, for anyone. The travails of Thames Water especially (but other water companies are not exempt) have wrought such damage to the sector’s reputation that water, once a byword for the essence of life, is now more commonly aligned in headlines with words including risk, sewage and pollution.
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Blog
Finely Balanced Decision Tips BoE to Cut
The Bank of England cut rates by 25 bps at its August policy meeting, but a series of aggressive rate reductions are likely off the table.
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People News
EdR REIM strengthens Housing Association through new board appointments
Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) today announces changes to the board of FAHHA, the for-profit housing association subsidiary of Funding Affordable Homes (FAH), its UK affordable housing fund. Richard McCarthy assumes the role of Chairman with two new board members, DJ Dhananjai and Karen Cooksley, appointed in order to add to the legal and investment and finance skills of the FAHHA Board.
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UK Pension Reforms: A New Horizon Awaits
Landmark review can unlock billions of pounds of capital to support economic reforms.
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UK Real Estate: Talking points July 2024
Welcome to our quarterly snapshot of current real estate market trends, using transparent capital and occupational market data points to summarise key implications for asset allocation and performance prospects.
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A new chapter: Time to prepare for the next phase of the real estate cycle
David Hedalen and Jonathan Bayfield from our real assets research team highlight data that shows real estate markets in the UK and Europe may be on the brink of an important shift.
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UK DC Pensions: Overcoming the Hurdles to Investing in Private Markets
Historically, UK DC pension plans have struggled to invest in private markets. We’ve found that where there’s a will, there’s a way.In today’s challenging environment for DC pension savers, allocating to private markets can help improve return potential. Implementing an allocation to private markets in DC pensions isn’t straightforward, but it can be done. The secret? A combination of experience, ingenuity and an appropriate choice of investment vehicle.
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UK election delivers no-drama outcome
Britain’s Labour Party returned to power for the first time in 14 years after winning a large majority in parliamentary elections that were held on July 4. Labour, led by Keir Starmer, won more than 410 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, while the Conservative Party suffered its worst-ever performance.
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Why Allocate to Private Credit in Your DC Pension Plan?
Saving for a pension isn’t getting any easier. But allocations to private assets—such as private credit—could help. It’s getting harder for UK defined contribution (DC) savers to accumulate realistic amounts of capital for their retirement.Prospective real returns from most asset classes look unlikely to match those of recent years. And the cost-of-living crisis is making it tougher for savers to maintain their current pension contributions, let alone increase them in future. How can DC savers get ahead?
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The future of green premia in real estate (part two): Searching for value and resilience
Do energy-efficient buildings have more pricing power, and what could that mean for those investing in the built environment? We bring together the views of leading capital markets researchers, a valuer and an asset manager for the second part of our deep dive into green premia, analysing the investment implications.