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Net Zero Investor’s Real Estate Summit 2024

Net Zero Investor’s Real Estate Summit

Fundamental to delivering long-term returns in real estate is the recognition that profound change, opportunity and risk are upon us.

Paris-alignment, understanding nature-based-risk, future-proofing real estate assets…however you care to frame the challenge, institutional real estate investors are rewriting their strategies as the asset class is repurposed and reimagined.

Credible sustainability frameworks and measuring risk and return throughout the real estate lifecycle are pivotal to future capital allocation decisions. And as asset owners wrestle with their net zero ambitions, they need to understansd how real estate managers will either support or detract from their goals. Investment managers across commercial and residential propositions are investing heavily in the steps required today to deliver real estate returns tomorrow. But which strategies will prevail for long-term investors? And how can the sector reach net zero?

Net Zero Investor’s Real Estate Summit brings together a senior group of investment managers and asset allocators to explore market developments in real estate investing, against the backdrop of the net zero challenge. Up to half of the places are set aside for qualifying asset owner/ allocators, with the other half (approx.) reserved for real estate managers/ sponsors who are driving change in the market.

With a peer-led agenda covering:

  • Market dynamics in a post-Paris world
  • Net zero commercial and housing opportunities for institutional investors
  • Net zero, demography, migration & real estate: the long-term challenge
  • Decarbonising the portfolio: sorting the green from the wash
  • Biodiversity: if real estate can decarbonise, can it ever be a friend to nature?
  • New technology: why investing today could ensure returns into the future
  • Governance and regulation of real estate: the most impactful changes on the horizon
  • Lifecycle investing: responsible approaches to real estate
  • Deep retrofit emissions reduction

Limited free places available for*:
Leads of real estate/property/real assets/manager selection & CIOs from:

Pension funds
Endowments & foundations
Insurance capital allocators
Family office and private bank allocators
Fund platforms
Sovereign wealth funds

*Longview Networks provides events for institutional investment allocators and managers. If you allocate capital to external investment managers, then you may be eligible for a free delegate place. If you’re unsure, please contact valli.jeganathan@netzeroinvestor.net

If you manage assets on behalf of other capital allocators, please register through the correct channel or contact peter.braham@netzeroinvestor.net for details of sponsorships.

2:30
Arrivals & refreshments
Charles van Thiel

director, real estate

GRESB

Louise Warden

investment director, real estate

LPPI

George Graham

independent adviser

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership

Hassan Sabir

finance & ESG director

EPRA

Michael Toft

head of care homes

Octopus Capital

Steven Grahame

senior investment research consultant

Hymans Robertson

Simone Pozzato

Senior managing director & fund manager

Hines European Core Fund

Cleo Fitzsimons

head of responsible investment

Pensions Insurance Corporation

Ximena Redfern-Tongs

investment manager

Pension Insurance Corporation

Patrick Smith

senior investment property sustainability manager

Wellcome Trust

3:00
A view from the associations

Hassan Sabir and Charles van Thiel will be kicking off this segement with a look at the key regulatory developments and their market and user impacts as well as opening the debate on sustainable investing vs sustainable investments.

Expect insight into, EPBD, the EU taxonomy, decarbonisation & additionality, and much more!

Charles van Thiel

director, real estate

GRESB

Hassan Sabir

finance & ESG director

EPRA

3:30
Energy transition & real estate - care homes case study

Michael Toft will be opening this segment of the discussion by illuminating some of the key benefits, both financial and environmental, by switching to low-carbon energy sources with reference to recent work done in care homes.

Michael Toft

head of care homes

Octopus Capital

4:00
Decarbonisation - financial performance & novel income opportunities

Simone Pozzato will be opening this part of the discussion about how decarbonisation correlates with financial performance and the income opportunities it may present to investors as well as looking at how to robustly evidence this across a fund.

Simone Pozzato

Senior managing director & fund manager

Hines European Core Fund

4:30
A view from the allocators

How should allocators approach integrating net zero considerations in appointing managers? What are the risks of stranded assets if the real estate sector does not transition? How can one green existing portfolios? The final segment of the day brings this all back to the capital allocation stories.

5:00
End of summit & drinks
Charles van Thiel

director, real estate

GRESB

Louise Warden

investment director, real estate

LPPI

George Graham

independent adviser

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership

Hassan Sabir

finance & ESG director

EPRA

Michael Toft

head of care homes

Octopus Capital

Steven Grahame

senior investment research consultant

Hymans Robertson

Simone Pozzato

Senior managing director & fund manager

Hines European Core Fund

Cleo Fitzsimons

head of responsible investment

Pensions Insurance Corporation

Ximena Redfern-Tongs

investment manager

Pension Insurance Corporation

Patrick Smith

senior investment property sustainability manager

Wellcome Trust

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