Prepare for some home truths: Sound investments based on economic reality will win the day

Deep Dive into property

It is impossible to address the outlook for property without first looking back to the Brexit referendum's aftermath and the resulting struggles of many open-ended direct property funds.

We are now almost five years past the vote. While broader investment circumstances have changed, the bricks and mortar property funds' structural headwinds remain the same.  The conflicting dual position of open-ended daily liquidity and illiquid assets was again exposed in 2020, this time by the Covid-19 lockdowns. AIC launches new property sector and two country offerings in latest shake-up Funds were forced to gate once more over what, in investing terms, was a relatively short period.  Though situations such as Covid-19 and Brexit might be rare events, there will be other, m...