Seeking secure and consistent cash flows in real estate long income

We acquire freeholds and long leaseholds on high-quality European real estate and infrastructure investments to derive maximum value from the contracted income stream. By investing with conviction and discipline, we aim to deliver consistent outcomes and performance, and look to partner with clients to meet their investment goals. 

Drawing on our wide resources, we use on-the-ground expertise to enhance operational value over the course of the assets’ life and aim to generate secure income from tenants with high credit quality. We also integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in a non-binding way throughout the investment lifecycle, where relevant, from decision-making to management and reporting.* 

Why invest?

Real estate long income investments may be attractive to investors with a medium-term time horizon and a decreasing risk tolerance, who are seeking long-dated cash flows. These strategies can also supplement traditional credit products of equivalent duration by typically exhibiting lower volatility.

Long-dated liability matching

Through these long-term assets, investors can potentially benefit from a closer match to their liability and duration needs.

Predictable cash flows

Quality tenants on long leases aim to deliver strong long-term cash flows.

Inflation hedge

Rents can be linked to the Retail Price Index or Consumer Price Index, or subject to fixed uplifts.

Diversification

The risk profile of long-lease property is different from traditional real estate, allowing investors to access varied types of revenue.

Lower risk

Deriving most of the value from underlying leases means less exposure to changing capital values.

Illiquidity premia

These assets aim to deliver more attractive yields than comparable asset classes.

*ESG integration means the integration of ESG factors and consideration of sustainability risk as part of the investment decision making process. This process is applied beyond any specific binding constraints (in the objective or strategy of the fund as detailed in the prospectus or investment management agreement and in accordance with our Baseline Exclusions Policy). The investment manager retains discretion on decision making taking all risks into account, beyond any binding criteria.

Explore real estate long income strategies

Find the latest prices and performance data in our fund centre via the links below. If you have any questions, please contact our distribution team.

European Real Estate Long Income Fund (E-RELI)

This strategy aims to deliver secure and consistent cash flows from predominantly inflation-linked leases with secure contractual lease terms of at least 15 years. The strategy has a focus on the least volatile European markets and investment-grade tenant covenants.

Aviva Investors Lime Property Fund

This well-established strategy, in place since 2004, is designed to prioritise secure income as the foundation for delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns. By focusing on consistent distributions across market cycles, it leverages a diversified portfolio of high-quality properties to provide resilience and long-term value for investors.

Key risks of real estate long income

Investment risk

The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Return profile

Long-lease assets are expected to be comparatively resilient at stress points, but may lag when traditional real estate markets are booming.

Real estate risk

Where strategies are invested in real estate, investors may not be able to redeem any units in the fund when they want because real estate assets may not always be readily saleable. If this is the case, we may defer a request to switch or cash in shares or units.

Valuation risk

Certain assets held in the strategy could, by nature, be hard to value or to sell at a desired time or at a price considered to be fair (especially in large quantities), and as a result their prices could be very volatile.

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