Tuesday, April 23, 2013

rent guaranteed | Jupiter Merlin ‘digging’ into UK property investments

rent guaranteed | Jupiter Merlin ‘digging’ into UK property investments
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rent guaranteed | Jupiter Merlin ‘digging’ into UK property investments If you have a property that you think meets our criteria, contact our teamwhere we will arrange a time to come and talk to you and inspect the property. You decide if you want the building rented for between one and five years. We make formal offers within 24 hours of seeing the property. Please note we require the relevant gas and safety certificates but we can arrange these for you if required. Multi-manager team scrutinising UK property sector and increasing exposure to Japan. John Chatfeild-Roberts’ Jupiter Merlin multi-manager team is sizing up a move into property, with the UK market a key area of interest. Algy Smith-Maxwell, co-manager of the five-strong Merlin fund range, said he and his colleagues were “beginning to do some digging” in order to assess how a property investment would fit into their portfolios. rent guaranteed “We haven’t yet worked out how to play property, but, as an ‘income plus’ investment that has been through a torrid time, maybe we need to start looking at a way of getting exposure, if we can find the right property and it happened to be on an attractive yield,” the manager said. “The UK secondary property index yields 7-8 per cent and that looks attractive to me. Is it possible to get exposure? I don’t know, but we have the resources to do some digging.” The five Jupiter Merlin portfolios currently hold only equity and bond funds, as well as an exchange-traded fund tracking gold, but the managers have been scaling back their bond fund exposure as yields have fallen. rent guaranteed In January Mr Chatfeild-Roberts sold out of Richard Woolnough’s £5.5bn Strategic Corporate Bond fund, moving instead into the Fundsmith Equity fund, although he has since backed Michael Mabbutt’s Liontrust Strategic Bond fund, investing in it at its launch in February. Mr Smith-Maxwell said there were still areas of fixed income that were attractive, including emerging market debt and high-yield bonds. rent guaranteed Elsewhere, the managers have been putting more money into Japan, topping up holdings in the CF Morant Wright Japan and Jupiter Japan Income funds. Merlin co-manager Peter Lawery said the recent stimulus package announced by the Bank of Japan marked an “inflection point”, but warned that the country’s government was “walking a tightrope” with the policy. “Japan is the one economy that has caused me more sleepless nights throughout my career than any other,” Mr Lawery said. “‘Abe-nomics’ is trying to create inflation and growth. If it works, then great, but they are walking a tightrope – it either works very well or it could be a disaster. The only thing I can say for certain is I will have more sleepless nights.” The Jupiter Merlin Growth, Balanced, Income and Worldwide funds all ranked in the top quartile of their respective sectors in the five years to April 17, according to FE Analytics. The Jupiter Merlin Conservative fund has gained 7 per cent since it launched in September, ranking it in the second quartile. View the original article here Guaranteed rent - Our top rated property management service comes highly recommended by many homeowners and landlords alike

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