Investment across the European real estate market totalled €248bn in 2022 – a fall of 14% on the previous year, according to law firm CMS. The first half of last year saw markets rebound after the Covid pandemic, according to the European Real Estate Deal Point Study – however, the sharp increase in financing costs…
A ‘year of reckoning’ has arrived for the European fintech scene, according to growth investor Finch Capital. The firm’s State of European Fintech 2023 report found funding for the sector dropped by 70% year on year, to levels last seen before 2020. At the same time, the report added, while mergers and acquisitions had remained…
Trium Capital has launched a multi-strategy alternatives UCITS fund. The Trium Multi-Strategy UCITS Fund will allocate capital across 10 different alternative strategies, including capital structure arbitrage, equity long/short, systematic equity, event driven and global macro. The fund will be led by head of multi-strategy solutions Clark Fenton alongside the wider multi-strategy team. He said the…
Are bonds a good or bad investment in the current environment? Sarah Godfrey takes a closer look Bond yields can be a real head-scratcher for investors. Rising yields are a function of falling prices; falling prices usually mean an asset is out of favour, yet higher bond yields signal better returns for those who buy…
Bad news for China doesn’t have to be bad news for Asia overall
US-based real estate investment trust Prologis has committed €250m to its Prologis European Logistics Fund (PELF). The move will be matched with a similar commitment of $250m to its Prologis US Logistics Funds (USLF). According to the firm, the new infusion of capital will allow the funds to “further invest in high-quality industrial assets, creating…
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Fund will have a minimum of 80% of its assets in sustainable investments
Rising interest rates, widening discounts and fixed income inflows have bruised assets
Three major property developers in Germany have gone into insolvency in the space of two months. According to reports from Berlin, Centrum Group, Development Partner and Euroboden have all begun to declare bankruptcy in recent weeks due to financial problems caused by a constraint on the nation’s property markets. A report from Reuters suggested Euroboden…
Investment in clean technology across Europe outperformed both the US and Asia over the second quarter of 2023, according to data from Cleantech for Europe. The organisation’s EU Cleantech Defies Global Headwinds briefing document highlighted that late-stage investment on the continent in this sector increased by 104% in the last quarter, even as overall trading…
Nomura Asset Management (NAM) has launched a corporate hybrid bond fund open to investors across Europe. The Nomura Funds Ireland – Corporate Hybrid Bond Fund aims to provide investors with exposure to high quality issuers with yields comparable to those of high yield bonds. The strategy will be managed by NAM head of corporate hybrid…
