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Decades of experience, proximity to the real estate markets and a tight-knit network allow us to identify real estate opportunities and quickly implement them in the right phase of the market.

Around 260 institutional clients have entrusted their investments to HIH Invest Real Estate. Our specialists for structuring, product development, real estate management and market development all work to develop the right investment solutions for them.

HIH Invest Real Estate is represented at eight locations throughout Europe. As part of the HIH Group, our in-house capacities cover the entire real estate investment value chain.

Early identification of changes in the market, implementation of regulatory requirements and future-oriented digital management are part of our corporate philosophy.

We currently manage assets with a volume of more than EUR 19.8 billion across 92 funds.

The group is also active in Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Real Estate and Fund Services.

With a resolutely family-run nature, Edmond de Rothschild has the independence necessary to propose bold strategies and long-term investments, rooted in the real economy.

Founded in 1953, the Group had more than CHF 160 billion in assets under management at the end of December 2022, 2,500 employees, and 30 locations worldwide.

With the experience of over 60 years and 600 employees at 19 locations, GARBE manages real estate assets of approx. 15 billion euros. Get to know our individual divisions now.

M&G has over 353 billion euros in assets under management worldwide. Our real estate division, M&G Real Estate, is responsible for 45 billion euros in real estate equity and debt (as at 30 June 2023). Our clients include insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, banks and private investors.

With more than 300 employees worldwide, M&G Real Estate manages some of the largest open-ended, diversified core real estate investment funds in Europe and Asia. Long-lease and living investment funds, joint ventures and individual mandates round off the product range. In addition, the M&G Real Estate Debt team has provided more than 15 billion euros in real estate financing since 2008.

M&G takes an active approach to responsible investing and strives to continuously improve the sustainability of its investments. Therefore M&G is committed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across all its assets under management by 2050, as well as to reduce CO2 emissions as a company to zero by 2030.

AEW represents the real estate asset management platform of Natixis Investment Managers, one of the largest asset managers in the world.

As at 30 September 2024, AEW managed €37.1bn of real estate assets in Europe on behalf of a number of funds and separate accounts. AEW has over 510 employees based in 11 offices across Europe and has a long track record of successfully implementing Core, Value-Add and Opportunistic investment strategies on behalf of its clients. In the last five years, AEW has invested and divested a total volume of almost €17.5bn of real estate across European markets.

The SaaS platform enables you to analyse your portfolio's ESG standing, identify and prioritise renovation roadmaps, budget, plan and control the financials of CapEx and new builds, and report on your ESG activity as well as your project financials. Everything you need to manage your real estate to Net-Zero in one unified platform.

Used by more than 300 satisfied customers like OFFICEFIRST, Patrizia, Vision and Hines, Alasco empowers them to make and manage the most profitable and sustainable investments for their assets, so that the value of their real estate is secured. As now, only a sustainable portfolio is a profitable one.

With assets under management in our open-ended real estate funds, special funds and service and pooling mandates currently totalling around EUR 57.0 billion, we are one of Germany’s largest providers of real estate solutions for private and institutional investors.
Our real estate business has continued to grow even after the turnaround in interest rates. We have taken advantage of the good equity base of our real estate funds and made targeted investments in the systematic diversification of our real estate portfolio.
In our strategic framework, we have also included viable and exciting new market segments such as Resort Hotels, Multi Family and Light Industrial - and we have also built up a strong strategic position in the residential markets of selected European metropolises within a very short time.
Complementary to new acquisitions, we are currently placing a special investment focus on repurposing space, updating buildings  and redeveloping locations into attractive high-quality neighbourhoods. In doing so, we create added value along the entire value chain - for investors and users, for the climate and the environment.
Within the Union Investment Group, Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH and Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH are the real estate specialists.

With more than 600 investment specialists in over 25 globally networked locations, we manage assets of EUR 442.6 billion*.
Thanks to this global positioning, broad-based investment expertise and in-house research, we can provide institutional investors and our retail distribution partners with a wide range of investment solutions. These cover equity and bond strategies in developed and emerging markets, real estate, and private markets (including infrastructure) as well as liquidity funds and integrated multi-asset strategies.
We fully consider ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors in our investment decisions and actively engage with the companies in which we invest. These relationships help us to better understand the investment risks and opportunities, as well as positively influence business practices and promote positive social and environmental change.
In Germany, we are represented by abrdn Investments Deutschland AG, which has about 100 employees in Frankfurt am Main and manages client assets of around EUR 35.0 billion*. As part of the abrdn Group, abrdn Investments Deutschland AG offers a broad product range for institutional investors, including insurance companies, banks, pension funds and foundations, as well as for sales partners in the private client sector. In real estate, abrdn Investments Deutschland AG has its own fund management, research and asset and transaction management teams. They focus on open-ended special real estate funds and closed-end investment limited partnerships, which are set up and managed for institutional clients in accordance with the German Capital Investment Act.
*As at: 30.09.2024

Art-Invest Real Estate pursues a “Manage to Core” / ”Manage to Sustainability” investment strategy. The company based in Cologne, was founded in 2010 by the managing partners and the Zech Group. In total, Art-Invest Real Estate manages real estate assets of around EUR 12 billion. Art-Invest Real Estate is now one of the largest project developers of offices and hotels in Germany.
Through its own capital management company, it has already launched 24 investment funds for institutional investors such as pension schemes and foundations since 2012. The interests of the investors are the main focus of the company's activities. Careful attention is paid from the start to the avoidance of conflicts of interest. Consequently, the strategies of the investment vehicles launched and managed by us are specifically conceived, in terms of profile, investment timetable and market sector to avoid any overlaps. Alongside careful adherence to investment law, the highest priority is given to successful asset management by the Art-Invest Real Estate team.
The range of investments spans the entire return and risk spectrum in the office, inner-city retail, hotel, residential and data centre sectors.
Changes to investment law permit the company to make use of new investment vehicles, including the “Investment-Kommanditgesellschaft” (investment limited partnership). In addition, we offer investors a Luxembourg platform primarily for alternative investments (including private equity and operator strategies).
Along the real estate value chain, Art-Invest Real Estate acts as an innovation leader also through its investments: “Design Offices” as a leading provider of flexible office and corporate coworking space, “BitStone Capital” as a venture capital company, “maincubes” as a developer and operator of data centers, “wusys” as a sector-independent IT service provider, “smartengine” as a provider of technology for intelligent buildings, “i Live” as a developer and operator of micro-living and serviced apartments, and “Scopes” as a provider of tenant planning and interior design.

CAERUS advises a Luxembourg domiciled real estate debt fund regarding it‘s investment strategy as well as its investments in real estate secured loans and also offers the management of real estate debt investments within the scope of separate accounts. In total, more than EUR 2.6 billion in real estate secured loans have already been paid out in Europe with the participation of CAERUS. The investment focus is on the DACH region and the BeNeLux countries. CAERUS has many years of in-depth knowledge of the requirements of institutional investors combined with comprehensive real estate market expertise over several cycles. This enables both sourcing and selection of sustainably attractive investment opportunities and results in an above-average track record. Expertise, track record, access to deals as well as established processes in combination with CAERUS' consistent ESG orientation give investors additional security for their investments in real estate financing.

The strategic merger aims to create a stronger platform for fund management 'one face to the market' and to increase operational efficiency.

The merger of the German entities will give clients access to a more robust, cross-sector front office with approximately 100 professionals managing more than EUR 10bn in assets across ten European countries. In addition to investments in European residential property, the expertise also includes logistics, office and parking strategies. CIM is a subsidiary of the Stockholm-based Catella Group.

The European offices of Columbia Threadneedle Investments in the United Kingdom (London), Germany (Munich) and France (Paris) manage AuM of € 15.5bn, of which more than € 4bn are managed by the Munich office. The services offered range from investment, fund and asset management, project planning and management for developments to research and financing.

Our success is based on buying a suitable property in a sustainable location at the right time and at an attractive pricing as well as on developing the property using customised solutions along its life cycle and until it is ready to be sold.

For institutional investors and family offices, this independent, owner-managed real estate management company offers a comprehensive range of services across the entire value chain with a team of around 90 experts. These services include acquisition and transaction management, financing, research, fund management, asset management, property management, risk management, and sales. Since its founding in 2014, GPEP has built a nationwide portfolio in Germany comprising approximately 450 properties with a current volume of around €2 billion.

Our focus is on creating and improving sustainable living and working environments in urban locations, whilst respecting ecological, economic and social factors. The Group, founded in 1997, employs 100 staff members and manages project and property assets of over €4.0 billion across Germany in the asset classes of residential, social infrastructure, city districts and office properties. For more information, please visit: hamburgteam.de.

We currently manage more than 21,500 units with a volume around EUR 5.6 billion in the German real estate market. With our many years of expertise, we ensure steady yields for our customers and we also offer professional services in all matters relating to real estate investment. INDUSTRIA is part of the Becken Group, an owner-managed real estate and investment company based in Hamburg that has been active in Germany's leading metropolitan regions since 1978.

Via the INTREAL Group's service platform, we offer our business partners – including asset managers, AIF management companies, investors as well as any other type of client who takes advantage of our services – all relevant IT services and best-practice consultancy in addition to our tailored solutions for initiating and administrating real estate funds and real estate-related funds.

With more than 500 employees working in our offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Luxembourg, we can offer you all-in packages that cover state of the art reporting solutions for all relevant investor groups, risk management, corporate management, investment law, taxes and hands-on IT consulting.

We manage around EUR 354 billion of assets, of which EUR 63 billion (09/24) is for private and institutional investors outside the Group. In the 'Real Estate' business unit, we successfully manage an international portfolio with a volume of c. EUR 15 billion.

We invest in real estate in Europe and North America that is attractive over the long term and focus on the office, residential, retail and logistics segments. In addition, we continuously analyze new investment segments and seize market opportunities at an early stage. We offer this to institutional investors in the form of fund and individual mandate solutions.

The software creates digital twins of buildings and enhances data using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI). This enables the platform to quickly and easily determine ESG scores and develop detailed manage-to-green strategies and decarbonization roadmaps to reduce carbon emissions and increase value. In addition, Predium provides automated, CSRD-compliant reporting for real-time reporting based on established industry standards or custom templates. Well-known companies such as Colliers, Bayerische Hausbau, Soravia, WBM, and Deutsche Investment rely on Predium. The Munich-based company was founded in 2021 by Jens Thumm, Mohamed Ali Razouane, and Maximilian Körner.
www.predium.de

Quadoro Investment GmbH is a high-performing AIFM that gives clients access to the regulated market.

Quadoro prioritizes sustainability at both company and investment level. Its tailored group-wide ESG strategy is regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet current needs. Using market and employee surveys, and the resulting actions, we are continuously improving our footprint in the areas of environment, social affairs and corporate governance. We are also guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

In addition to alternative investment funds (special AIFs and closed-end public AIFs) and an open-ended public property fund, the range of products and services includes individual fund solutions, club deals, joint ventures and asset management mandates for institutional clients. Real I.S. Property Management GmbH rounds off the range of services. The Real I.S. Group has more than 12 billion euros in assets under management and has two licensed capital management companies (KVGs) in accordance with the German Investment Code (KAGB) as well as subsidiaries and branches in France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia.

For our private and institutional investors we are managing more than 9,000 units at 35 locations in Germany operated by our team of 100 employees. The Assets under Management are totalized € 1.9 billion (2 open end retail funds, 7 open special funds/ separated accounts according to the German KAGB and 1 asset management mandate). We are investing in residential properties with and without refurbishment needs (manage to ESG) as well as in developments and forward deals.
The property management and leasing of the units are managed by the team of WERTGRUND Immobilien Verwaltungs GmbH at 14 locations in Germany.
For its performance in the asset management, WERTGRUND was dignified from the rating company Scope continous since 2017 with awards as best asset manager residential or best asset manager ESG residential.

In particular DLA Piper's Real Estate practice, with more than 500 leading real estate specialists, including around 30 dedicated lawyers in Germany, is one of the firm's most specialized global practice groups, providing exceptional service.

Increasing sustainability, requirements and advancing digitalization are also driving developments in the real estate industry. The focus is on popular asset classes such as data centers, critical infrastructure and PropTech projects. New legal issues arise in almost all areas. Our aim is to provide our clients with reliable and secure answers for the future. Thanks to our broad expertise combined with a very high degree of specialization and an international network, we think outside the legal box and develop efficient new solutions for our clients from a single source. This includes not only asset management, transactions, financing and restructuring. Our sector expertise, such as in the areas of energy and infrastructure as well as technology, ensures that we see the big picture and can cover special aspects outside the traditional real estate industry.

McDermott Will & Emery is one of the leading law firms in the areas of investment funds, real estate and infrastructure in Germany. We offer 360-degree solutions for all aspects of real estate and infrastructure projects and have advised on and successfully executed some of the largest and most sophisticated transactions in Germany in recent years. We advise investors, fund and asset managers, project developers, family offices and others on all legal, regulatory, tax and related issues, including structuring, financing, tax, regulatory and corporate law.

Our experienced funds practice provides comprehensive advice to AIF and UCITS investment management companies, fund initiators, institutional investors, private equity funds and others on the launch and management of funds. We structure special assets of various asset classes, investment KGs and other investment companies, fund-of-funds structures, funds of funds and club deals as well as foreign regulated structures. In addition, we advise on licensing procedures with regulatory authorities, on regulatory issues (KAGB, VAG, KWG, Solvency II, etc.) as well as on tax and compliance issues. www.mwe.com/de/

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At www.institutional-investment.de, since the year 2005 institutional investors can find all the important facts and topics that are useful for day-to-day business as well as for strategic decisions. This includes key topics, e.g. from the areas of asset allocation, ALM, controlling and administration as well as investor interviews and news from the asset management scene. Our newsletter reach over 5,000 contacts in institutional asset management, including over 3,400 institutional end investors.

In addition to our online activities, we do connect institutional investors with the investment industry via various events (i.e. breakfast seminars). Further we provide a directory of asset managers active in the region, an annual survey of DACH investor needs and an annual Yearbook rounding up developments in the institutional investment industry in the German-speaking countries.

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