Real estate yields typically offer an attractive risk premium to long-term government bonds.

Maximising opportunities from direct and indirect real estate using our scale and presence across local markets. We have a deep understanding of real estate’s ability to provide a wide variety of investment opportunities. We believe the asset class is unrivalled in its ability to deliver enhanced portfolio diversification and strong, risk-adjusted returns over the long term. Our global real estate capabilities We offer expertise across all principal real estate sectors – enabling our clients to target opportunities in their home market and globally. As one of the world’s largest real estate managers, we have the deal flow and resources to enable clients to access the whole real estate value chain at every stage of the market cycle. We have extensive experience in delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns from direct and indirect real estate, real estate multi-manager, listed real estate and real estate debt solutions for our real estate investors over the long term. With a significant presence in the market, we are ranked as one of the largest real estate managers globally. We have real estate professionals across the world covering investments, transactions and developments. They have a strong regional network of contacts and an ‘on-the-ground’ understanding of local market conditions. Our approach is global but implemented locally. The size of our real estate business combined with our presence in local markets makes us a key player globally. Agents approach us directly with investment opportunities that are often unavailable to smaller investors. We believe that our global reach allows us to uncover more investment opportunities that have the potential to enhance investors’ returns.

It is our responsibility as real estate investors to understand the environmental, social and economic impacts and their value potential to our investments in order to deliver resilient, long-term returns and to manage exposure to material risks. Sustainability is therefore integral to all stages of our real estate investment process. We are evolving our investment philosophy to incorporate “positive impact” investing moving beyond ESG to proactively seek to improve situations. We believe that a sustainable, Real Estate with Impact investment programme should deliver:

• Enhanced long term returns for our clients
• Contribute to our tenants’ business performance and
• Deliver positive impacts to communities, the environment and society for the long term