Lauren Mills

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Private Markets Editor at Investment & Pensions Europe

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M&G and Dai-ichi Life launch ambitious long-term strategic partnership

4 weeks ago | ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Dai-ichi Life Holdings (Dai-ichi Life HD) and M&G have launched a long-term strategic partnership across asset management and life insurance. As part of the deal, M&G will become the preferred asset management partner for Dai-ichi Life HD in Europe. Additionally, Dai-ichi Life HD said it intends to acquire around a 15% shareholding in M&G plc.
Greykite partners with Martley Captal to launch UK industrial strategy

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Greykite’s European real estate fund has entered into a partnership with Martley Capital Group, marking the launch of the UK division of Lagerhome, Greykite’s multi-let industrial platform. Simultaneously, the partnership between the Greykite European Real Estate Fund I fund and Martley has acquired an industrial estate in Milton Keynes in the UK, one of three target markets for the platform, alongside Sweden and Germany. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Prime real estate lending shows signs of recovery as volumes rise

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

New lending for commercial real estate (CRE) showed the first signs of recovery at the end of 2024, according to Bayes Business School’s latest bi-annual report. Bayes (formerly Cass) said new CRE loan volumes increased by 11% year-on-year in the 12 months to 31 December 2024, reaching £36.3bn (€43m). Most of the recovery was due to stronger lending activity during the last quarter of 2024, the report found.
Blackstone’s joint real estate chief says “we’re in a moment of extraordinary uncertainty” at INREV

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

As real estate investors grapple with market volatility following Trump’s Liberation Day speech and continuing global geopolitical turbulence, Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kathleen McCarthy, told delegates at the annual INREV conference in Berlin that “we are in a moment of extraordinary uncertainty”.
INREV conference: Deflationary storm could lead to European renaissance

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Deflationary pressure from China in the wake of Trump’s tariffs war, combined with increased defence and infrastructure spending, could result in a “renaissance for Europe”, according to Seema Shah, global strategist at Principal Asset Management. During her keynote address at this year’s annual INREV conference in Berlin, Shah said: “There is a potential deflationary storm which is heading for Europe. Already this year, the yuan has depreciated by 10% against the euro.
Tariffs hit European real estate outlook with industrial most affected

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Oxford Economics has revised down its outlook for European commercial property following the introduction of trade tariffs by the US government.
Schroders snaps up London care home for Greater Manchester Pension

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Schroders Capital’s real estate team, acting on behalf of Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), has acquired a 59-bed care home in south-west London for £14.2m (€16.6m). This latest deal is the fifth acquisition for GMPF over the past 12 months, with investments totalling £130m, generating an average yield of more than 6% based on the gross acquisition prices.
Clara superfund launches private markets investment vehicle

2 months ago | ipe.com | Lauren Mills

UK-based Clara-Pensions superfund is poised to launch a new private markets investment vehicle. Expected to be registered shortly, the Clara Private Markets Vehicle has been created in conjunction with Van Lanschot Kempen Group which will manage the fund. It will invest across a range of private markets, focusing initially on private credit. Longer term, the vehicle will also consider other assets such as infrastructure debt and real estate debt.
AIP to invest in US independent power producer Silicon Ranch

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

AIP Management (AIP), founded by Danish pension provider PKA, is to invest an undisclosed sum in Silicon Ranch, an independent power producer (IPP) in the US. AIP said the transaction reflects its confidence in the resilience of US clean energy and the strong fundamentals supporting large-scale renewables in the US.
Barings secures Homes England, LGPS loan for UK residential project

Mar 28, 2025 | realassets.ipe.com | Lauren Mills

Barings has secured a £91m (€109.3m) debt facility from Homes England, Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) to forward fund a UK residential development scheme. The investment manager has secured the four-year loan, in addition to a £5.7m grant from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s brownfield housing fund, for the Kirkstall Road residential scheme in Leeds.