{"id":487,"date":"2014-03-14T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=487"},"modified":"2014-03-14T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T07:28:02","slug":"fund-focus-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Fund Focus: Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M&amp;G Property Portfolio is a special fund known as a <strong>PAIF<\/strong>, a <em><strong>Property Authorised Investment Fund.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It gives investors exposure to hard assets, property. The fund today has many assets, the top ten investments are:<\/p>\n<p>The Gracechurch Centre in Sutton Coldfield a <strong><em>retail investment<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nCastle Vale Retail Park Birmingham a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nRiverside Retail Park Northampton a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nAlder Castle 10 Noble Street London, EC2 an <em><strong>office investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nRavenside Retail Park London, N18 a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWycome Retail Park High Wycombe a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nChiswick Green, 610-624 Chiswick High Road London, W4 an <em><strong>office investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nTesco Supermarket Kilverstone Thetford a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWaverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place Edinburgh an <em><strong>office investment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nTesco Supermarket, London Road, Loudwater High Wycome a <em><strong>retail investment<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As you see it has diversified its holdings to own property for retail businesses and also office blocks for commercial office usage.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike financial investments, that are effectively instruments, property is an asset class that is backed by a physical asset. So unlike currency that can be devalued by market activities or shares that could become worthless, property is a hard asset. In these times of ultra low interest rates, the effective return on renting out an office can exceed 6% or 7%.<\/p>\n<p>With assets of \u00a32,444 million = <strong>\u00a32.44 Billion<\/strong> it is a large fund with 46% of its investment in the South East of England.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"M&amp;G Property \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/property-portfolio\/gb00b8g9tt83\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mandg.co.uk\/investor\/funds\/property-portfolio\/gb00b8g9tt83\/overview\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M&amp;G Property Portfolio is a special fund known as a PAIF, a Property Authorised Investment Fund. It gives investors exposure to hard assets, property. The fund today has many assets, the top ten investments are: The Gracechurch Centre in Sutton Coldfield a retail investment Castle Vale Retail Park Birmingham a retail investment Riverside Retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}