The Association of Real Estate Funds
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
We promote the interests of member funds by: •Ensuring that members offer consistently high quality products and support services to investors and their advisers, and by enhancing the understanding of real estate funds by those users through our governance and transparency standards; •Informing, influencing and lobbying policy makers, tax and regulatory authorities, and other official bodies to achieve the optimum business environment for real estate funds, through the work of our Executive, Secretariat, Committees and Working Groups; •Influencing the evolution of our industry by (i) seeking ways to enhance the products and services offered by members; (ii) addressing the concerns of third party stakeholders, and; (iii) developing members’ understanding of new asset types; through promotion of debate, arrangement or sponsorship of events, and commissioned research.
EU Legislative Interests
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Markets in Financial Instruments Directive European Long Term Investment Funds Capital Markets Union Solvency II Taxonomy Sustainability Finance Disclosure Regulation
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Member of the European Real Estate Forum (EREF) (http://www.europeanrealestateforum.eu) - An informal multinational alliance of organisations with an interest in institutional investment in European real estate. Member of the Property Industry Alliance (PIA) - A cross industry group representing the commercial property industry in the UK. Member of Alliance of International Fund Associations (AIFA) (https://www.aref.org.uk/about-us/alliances/aifa.html) - An informal alliance of 6 real estate funds related trade bodies who meet regularly to discuss how they are facing trends and issues within their own countries and those that may effect real estate globally.
Organisation Members
http://www.aref.org.uk/members
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.