The tide is turning

Reluctant to expose themselves to the commercial property market in the past, pension funds look likely to make their own U-turn following another year of steady growth and respectable returns, says Gregor Watt

Steady growth for property funds

It is something of a mystery that at a time when the population at large is pinning its collective investment hopes to the residential property market as their main, in some cases only, investment for retirement, institutional pension investors in the UK remain at best lukewarm to the idea of property.

The sky's the limit

Property continues to be an extremely popular form of investment and the returns are gaining even more momentum. Bricks and mortar feel good, says Katie Hope

Safe as houses?

Putting money into bricks and mortar was historically though to be a prudent move. In the current economic climate – with the FTSEAll-Share falling by nearly a sixth – the theory seems to still ring true, says Katie Hope