Global Real Estate Securities Fund

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Overview

Manager's Outlook

With the prospect of higher interest rates and fuel prices leading to a consumer slowdown, we have tilted the portfolio toward sectors where rents can grow at or above the pace of inflation as a result of favorable demand and supply dynamics. These segments include apartments, industrial warehouses, and self-storage. We are also selectively maintaining our overweight position in hotels given that a pickup in business travel from a low base can offset any potential weakness in leisure travel going forward. Hotels in Japan and China should also benefit from an eventual reopening of borders, and we have exposure to hotel companies in both these markets. ��

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We are cautiously optimistic for global real estate returns in the second half of 2022, especially after the year-to-date correction. Valuations on cash flow metrics are now generally in line with long-term averages, with the prospects of healthy earnings growth in sub-sectors with pricing power. Coastal apartment REITs in North America continue to benefit from a return to work and low supply in several key cities. We also have a significant bet in single family residential REITs where a tight housing market and a stickier customer base should underpin solid rental growth. Industrial warehouses is one of our biggest sub-sector overweights; several cities, such as Shanghai, Sydney, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, have a scarcity of city center industrial land, leading to above-average rental growth. Additionally, consumer preferences for same-day or next-day delivery has led to high demand for prime locations.

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Self-storage is another sector we are positive on given relatively resilient demand driven by customers' life events, and the length of rentals continues to increase with supply building slower than expected. Self-storage landlords can also reset rents ahead of inflation since rates are adjusted on a weekly or monthly basis. While work from home will continue to be an obstacle for office demand, we selectively own Grade A office landlords in supply-constrained cities such as Hong Kong and London. In cities such as London we are already seeing a green premium for Grade A environmentally-friendly office buildings versus Grade B assets.

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We believe investing in the global real estate market offers inflation-protection potential, especially given our focus on sub-sectors that have pricing power driven by improving demand or falling supply. �We remain constructive on the earnings potential for several property types in the second half of 2022 and 2023 driven by rising rents and falling supply. Additionally, we expect to see a continued divergence in performance between high-quality Grade A real estate versus Grade B assets. We believe our well-located real estate holdings are positioned to benefit from these trends. �

Strategy

Fund Summary

We seek to make well-timed investments in undervalued real estate companies, favouring high quality real estate in land-constrained markets. We aim to identify real estate with a high asset base potential to build a well-diversified portfolio. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 10% of the value of its portfolio invested in Sustainable Investments, as defined by the SFDR. Additionally, we apply a proprietary responsible screen (exclusion list). The manager is not constrained by the fund’s benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.

Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

31-Oct-2024 - Jai Kapadia, Portfolio Manager,

Global real estate stocks produced negative results in October as solid economic data and rising US Treasury yields led to reduced expectations for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to cut short-term interest rates aggressively at its November 6-7 policy meeting. Within the portfolio, our lack of exposure to Swedish companies contributed to relative performance as Sweden was one of the worst performing countries in the index. Stock selection in Singapore also aided relative returns as shares of a real estate investment trust (REIT) advanced following the release of solid quarterly financial results that showed strong distributable income and robust demand at its Frankfurt and Los Angeles locations. Conversely, our overweight allocation paired with unfavourable stock picking in the UK hurt relative results. Our notable overweight exposure to an industrial real estate company, which underperformed the broader UK market, meaningfully detracted from relative performance during the month. Negative stock picking coupled with a modest underweight allocation in the US also hindered relative performance. Here, our underweight position in a colocation data centre and our overweight to a warehouse company hurt performance as the latter sold off following an earnings release that showed weaker-than-expected underlying fundamentals, such as declining rents in Southern California.

31-Jan-2024 - Jai Kapadia, Portfolio Manager,

The US, Japan, the UK, and Australia represent our largest country allocations. During the month, we continued to find opportunities where we feel valuations may be underestimating the durability of growth or turnaround potential within the company. In the US, we added to our position in a leading data centre colocation company. We believe the firm will command a pricing premium in a fast-growing industry. We also increased our stake in an American industrial property landlord with significant global scale, as we believe that the company is well positioned to benefit from supply chain reconfiguration and growth in e-commerce.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

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