The Association of Real Estate Funds
Acronym: AREF
General Information
Identification Code: 5804781152-61
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Entity Form: UK company limited by guarantee, not for profit organisation
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 7/7/2008
Last Update: 1/4/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
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.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Banking and financial services
- Climate action
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Energy
- Environment
- Taxation
Levels of Interest:
- global
- european
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Camomile Court23 Camomile Street
Post Code: EC3A 7LL
City: London
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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EU Office
Address: Camomile Court23 Camomile Street
Post Code: EC3A 7LL
City: London
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.25
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: http://www.aref.org.uk/members
Organisation Members: 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.