Property

Aviva Investors expect another year of double-digit returns from property in 2015, with returns for this year tipped to exceed 20%.

Europe’s property market retains its appeal due to risk avoidance strategies

Threadneedle Investments is looking at soft-closing its UK Property trust after seeing a surge in inflows into the product this year, Investment Week understands.

Investors looking to diversify their property investments should consider buying into alternative sectors such as prisons, according to Principal Global Investors' Simon Hedger.

The German market has been a stellar performer for property investors this year, but it is Sweden that could be the 2015 winner, managers suggest.

Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) has moved to offload its £437m property fund to Henderson Global Investors, proposing a merger of the portfolio into the Henderson UK Property fund.

The value of the suspended Brandeaux Student Accommodation fund's property portfolio has been cut by more than 6% by Savills following an independent valuation process.

Rathbones' David Coombs has bought into commercial property for the first time, seeking to avoid the usual pitfalls by utilising a number of less mainstream options and closed-ended vehicles.

UK IFAs are among hundreds of creditors facing severe losses in a £60m investment scheme marketed as low risk but "tainted with illegality", according to the firm's liquidators.

Neuberger Berman has hired M&G's Gillian Tiltman for its global real estate securities team.