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Introduction to Investment
Valuation and Portfolio Theory
Financial Instruments and Investment Markets
Advanced Property Investment Appraisal
Property Finance & Funding
Portfolio Management
International Property Investment
Indirect Property Investment
 
 

 

Indirect Property Investment

 
Joint Module Leader: Xavier Jongen
Rabo Bouwfonds REIM
Xavier Jongen
Xavier Jongen (Las Palmas, 1970) graduated at a the IEP de Paris, followed by a post-graduate Master at the College of Europe (graduated with honors) and a post-graduate RICS diploma in Property and Business at the Cambridge International Land Institute.

Xavier has been working in the European property industry since 1996. He firstly joined ECORYS, an international research and consulting organization, after which he joined ING Real Estate as a Senior Analyst and later as the Associate Acquisitions for continental Europe. Xavier currently works for Rabo Bouwfonds REIM as the Manager New Markets. From 1995 until May 2005, Xavier also worked as an external public speaker for the European Commission in Brussels. Xavier is a Governor of the Cambridge International Land Institute.


Joint Module Leader: Andrew Appleyard - Aviva Investors


Andrew joined Aviva Investors in October 2003 as fund manager of the Aviva Life funds out of town retail &leisure portfolio,moving to his present position of Head of UK Specialist Funds (Real Estate) in November 2007.He manages a team of 9 sector specialist funds with a gross property value of approximately £5.6bn(as at end of March 2009).Previously ,he worked at Henderson Global Investors specialising in property fund management and investment for client funds.He was heavily involved in the establishment of the HGI Retail warehouse fund and the Covent Garden Partnership with Scottish widows. Andrew holds a BSc (hons) in Land Management from Reading University and has completed the UKSIP Investment Management Certificate.He is a member of the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors and was the Chairman of Accessible Retail.He sits on the Investment Property Forum property indirects committee and the AREF indices committee. 

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Investment Valuation and Portfolio Theory

Module Leader: Eva Steiner
Eva Steiner

Eva is an analyst in the European Strategy & Research team of LaSalle Investment Management in London where she focuses on the analysis of the UK and continental European real estate markets. Previously, she worked as a consultant at Christie + Co in Munich specialising in the valuation of hotel property across Europe as well as transaction advice.

She holds a BA degree in Business Administration from University of Heilbronn, Germany, as well as an MPhil degree in Real Estate Finance from University of Cambridge, UK.


Charles Follows BSc BSc MBA FRICS
Charles is the Director of UK Research and Strategy at ING REIM (UK) Ltd.  Charles has over 30 years of practical experience of the UK property investment market. He qualified as a chartered surveyor after gaining a BSc in Estate Management. Charles also holds an MBA, a BSc in Mathematical Sciences, a Diploma in Statistics and has completed the Investment Management Programme at the London Business School. He holds the IMC and is a member of UKSIP, and is an FSA approved person.
Prior to joining ING REIM Charles was the first Research Director of the Investment Property Forum for three years. He developed a structured, rigorous and effective research programme for the IPF, which achieved international recognition.
Previously, Charles was a Director of Investment Research of CB Richard Ellis, leading the Forecasting and Investment Strategy Team. He advised a number of large investors on strategic and tactical investment issues, and led a property forecasting service. In previous appointments, he was the fund manager for a number of direct property investment portfolios, was a Director of a property subsidiary of an investment bank and was Head of Research at Healey & Baker (now Cushman & Wakefield).


Financial Instruments and Investment Markets

Module Leader: Philip Booth BA FIA FSS

Philip Booth

Professor of Real Estate Finance at City University Business School, Philip Booth has a wide experience teaching and researching investment and asset markets. He has also recently worked on secondment at the Bank of England where he is currently a consultant adviser. He has previously worked for AXA Equity & Law. His teaching and research interests include institutional investment, asset allocation, real estate investment analysis and social insurance reform. Philip is Associate Editor of the British Acturial Journal and co-authored with George Matysiak The Pensions Act 1995 and Property Investment prepared for the Investment Property Forum. He has also co-authored the books "Investment Mathematics and Statistics" and "Modern Actuarial Theory & Practice"

Tony Key
Joined Cass Business School as Professor of Real Estate Economics in January 2003. He had been since 1988 Director of Research at Investment Property Databank, undertaking the development real estate research and information services including a forecasts, market analysis, tenant risk assessment. He produced many commissioned reports and conference papers on issues such as property cycles and investor performance. He also led the introduction of new real estate index and benchmarking services in Scandinavia and Canada. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Tony worked on urban and regional development projects in government, at the Centre for Environmental Studies, and was a Partner of Property Market Analysis.


Property Investment Appraisal

Module Leader: Dr. Albert Cao BSc, Msc, PhD

 

Robert Couchman BSc FRICS MISM

Robert Couchman is a Visiting Professor and Director of International Studies at the Royal Agricultural College. He was formally the Managing Director of the Peer Group an investment/development company with a gross asset value of £200 million and now runs his own property and academic consultancy business SGT International while acting as Senior Consultant for Peer. He has previously been a full time academic for 16 years in UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong where he was the Head of Department of Building and Surveying at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 1989 he became a partner of Levett and Bailey and then a founding partner of Brooke Hillier Parker in Hong Kong before moving down to run the BHP office in Jakarta. He returned to the UK in 1994 to take up his position with the Peer Group. He is currently working on a series of investment and development projects both in the UK and overseas.

 

Judy Smith - Kingston University
Judy spent several years practising as a Chartered Surveyor in the public sector with the Inland Revenue and in a consultancy capacity before becoming a lecturer at Kingston University. Judy’s specialism is property investment, valuations and IT applications and she has carried out some analytical research for King Sturge and the RICS. She is a member of the Investment Property Forum’s academic faculty, has published in academic journals and is co-author of Property and Construction Economics published by Thomson International Business and Real Estate Appraisal from Value to Worth published by Blackwell Publishing. Judy is currently involved in researching a sustainable calculation of worth model and a peer mentoring approach to support year one
undergraduate studies.

 

Tony Key
Joined Cass Business School as Professor of Real Estate Economics in January 2003. He had been since 1988 Director of Research at Investment Property Databank, undertaking the development real estate research and information services including a forecasts, market analysis, tenant risk assessment. He produced many commissioned reports and conference papers on issues such as property cycles and investor performance. He also led the introduction of new real estate index and benchmarking services in Scandinavia and Canada. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Tony worked on urban and regional development projects in government, at the Centre for Environmental Studies, and was a Partner of Property Market Analysis.

 

Graham Chase
Graham Chase was RICS President for the 2006/2007 session. He also led the RICS Code of Practice for Commercial Leases team which was successful in persuading Government not to legislate on market based issues.

He has been involved in the commercial property sector for the last 30 years. Specialising in retail and leisure property, he set up his own practice, Chase & Partners of which he is Chairman, in 1995, having been previously Chairman of the Retail Division of Colliers Erdman Lewis and prior to that a Partner at Clive Lewis and Partners.

Other recent activities include advising on the acquisition of the Iceland Group and Booker Group and the sale and leasebacks with a value in excess of £350m.

He receives a number of appointments as an Independent Expert and Arbitrator on disputes between parties on rent reviews, service charges, development agreements and other issues in the retail and leisure property sectors and is a member of the President’s Arbitrator and Independent Expert Panels. He is the executive author of the Lease Renewal Handbook by RICS Books.

 

Property Finance & Funding

Module leader: Werner Bäumker, Grosvenor

Werner works at Grosvenor as Group Projects & Investments Manager, reporting directly to the Group CEO and Group Projects Director, and is responsible for business development and strategic planning in achieving better practice across the Grosvenor Group. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in the areas of fund management and real estate investment banking.

Werner holds a BSc International Business (Hons) from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, an MPhil in Real Estate Finance (Distinction) from Cambridge University, and is currently pursuing a part-time PhD in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge University.

Patrick Harnan BSc (Hons, Dip Prop Inv, MRICS)

 

Rob Cutts is the Intermediary Development Manager, Property Finance at the Nationwide Building Society

Colin Humphries – Canada Life
Qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 1987, Colin has worked in valuation, investment, fund management and then banking in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and is now responsible for extending the property lending capabilities of the Canada Life investment team in the UK and mainland Europe.

Michael Molloy – Westbrook Partners
Michael Molloy gained property surveying experience at Cushman & Wakefield (New York and London); Analyst experience in real estate debt origination within Deutsche Bank’s CMBS group; and switched to client side in 2004.  As an Associate for Sam Zell’s Chicago-based Equity International fund, he gained an understanding of private equity approaches to real estate operating platforms across Latin America.  Michael is currently Vice President at Westbrook Partners, a private equity real estate fund focused on global gateway cities across a broad range of sectors.
 

Melville Rodrigues – Partner – Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw
Experience 
Property Law: considerable experience working with a range of property developers, investors, financiers and operators.
Employment 
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, London, 2000 to date.
Education 
Cambridge University, Law degree, 1979 • Open University, MBA, 2000

Rupert Sheldon - Director - PCP
Rupert is a Chartered Surveyor and qualified in 1994. He started his career at Gooch & Wagstaff Colliers CRE, focusing firstly on occupational agency and then commercial investment. Rupert joined AMP Asset Management in 1996 which then became Henderson Global Investors. He was appointed fund manager of the £250m Henderson UK Property Fund in 2001and became a director of Henderson in 2003. Rupert joined PCP in 2005 and oversees the Active Value Funds.

Hans Vrenson is at Barclays Capital and heads research into commercial mortgage backed securities.

 


 

Portfolio Management

Module Leader: Shaun Bond

Shaun Bond

Dr Shaun Bond is an Associate Professor of Real Estate at  the School of Business,  University of Cincinnati. Prior to taking up the appointment Shaun was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge, Shaun gained considerable experience in economic analysis having been employed as a senior economist in the Macro-economics branch of the Queensland Treasury Department (Australia). His time at Queensland Treasury also included extensive experience in econometric modelling and data analysis, having served in the econometric modelling unit and the Government Statistician’s Office.

Shaun’s current research interests are centred on the application of quantitative techniques to decision making in real estate and more generally in other areas of finance. Recent research papers have been published in leading real estate journals and presented at a number of international conferences. Topics include asset pricing, liquidity risk, the time series properties of securitised real estate returns and the development of dynamic models of downside risk in financial markets. Real estate finance, financial econometrics, risk measurement

Carl Bacon - StatPro Group plc
Carl Bacon CIPM, joined StatPro Group plc as Chairman in April 2000. StatPro provides sophisticated data and software solutions to the asset management industry. Carl also runs his own consultancy business providing advice to asset managers on various risk and performance measurement issues.

Prior to joining StatPro Carl was Director of Risk Control and Performance at Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd, Vice President Head of Performance (Europe) for J P Morgan Investment Management Inc., and Head of Performance for Royal Insurance Asset Management.

Carl holds a B.Sc. Hons. in Mathematics from Manchester University and is an executive committee member of Investment-Performance.com, and  an associate tutor for 7city Learning.  A founder member of both the Investment Performance Council and GIPS®, Carl is a member of the GIPS® Executive Committee, chair of the Verification/ Practitioner sub-committee and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Performance Measurement.

Carl is also the author of “Practical Portfolio Performance Measurement & Attribution” part of the Wiley Finance Series, numerous articles and papers and editor of  “Advanced Portfolio Attribution Analysis”

 

 

 

International Property Investment


Module Leader: Dhananjai Dhananjai, ING REIM

Dhananjai joined ING REIM Select (Fund of Funds business) as a Global Funds Analyst to focus on global strategies, financial analysis, portfolio management and investment activities. Prior to joining ING he worked for English Partnerships as a Senior Manager where he was responsible for portfolio acquisitions and investments, involved in structuring joint venture partnerships and developing new programmes.

Dhananjai has considerable experience in real estate economics and regional development pursuing his academic interests as a part-time lecturer in Urban Finance at University College London. Dhananjai holds post graduate degrees in Urban Economics, and Finance from University of London followed by a Masters in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

 

 
 
   
 
 
 
 
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