New fund management mandate

RNS Number : 6944C

First Property Group PLC

21 January 2015

 

Date:	21 January 2015
On behalf of:	First Property Group plc ("First Property", "the Company" or the "Group")
Embargoed:	0700hrs

First Property Group plc

New fund management mandate

First Property Group plc (AIM: FPO), the property fund management group, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new fund management agreement with an existing pension fund client, the Shipbuilding Industries Pension Scheme ("SIPS"), to establish and manage a new property investment fund ("the new fund"). SIPS has committed a minimum of £125 million to the new fund for an initial term of ten years. SIPS was advised by Hymans Robertson LLP.

The new fund will be unleveraged and will target a net total return of 7% per annum or more from investments in property in the United Kingdom. The investment remit is broad, encompassing both investment and development properties across all sectors, including offices, retail, industrial and residential. First Property Group will earn annual fees from the new fund calculated by reference to the value of the properties under management.

Ben Habib, Chief Executive of First Property Group, said:

"We are very pleased to have been awarded this broad investment mandate which reflects the confidence SIPS has in us. The broad mandate enables us to tailor our investment approach to prevailing market conditions and to deploy capital where it is likely to earn the highest returns."

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For further information please contact:

First Property Group plc	Tel: [phone]
Ben Habib (Chief Executive & Chief Investment Officer)	www.fprop.com
George Digby (Group Finance Director) Jeremy Barkes (Director, Business Development)	[e-mail]
Arden Partners	Tel: [phone]
Chris Hardie (Director, Corporate Finance) Michael McNeilly (Corporate Finance)
Redleaf Polhill	Tel: [phone]
George Parrett / Henry Columbine	[e-mail]

Notes to investors and editors:

First Property Group plc is a property fund manager with operations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Its business model is to:

·     Raise and manage third party funds to invest in property;

·     Co-invest in these funds and thereby earn a return on its own capital invested; and

·     Earn fees from the management of these funds. Fees earned are typically a function of the value of assets under management as well as the performance of the funds.

The investment performance of the Group's funds under management in Poland and in Central Europe is ranked No.1 versus the Investment Property Databank (IPD) universe for Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) for the eight years to 31 December 2013, having previously ranked No.1 versus the IPD CEE universe over the three, four, five, six and seven years to 31 December 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 respectively.

First Property Asset Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Further information about the Company and its products can be found at: www.fprop.com.

 

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