
Hugo Llewelyn
Hugo Llewelyn is managing director of Newcore Capital
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Some home truths about ESG
One positive thing to emerge from the first stage of this coronavirus rewiring is that institutional investors and forward-thinking fund managers have not forgotten previous commitments to environmental, social and corporate governance.
- Insight
Time for big players to do their bit
Getting the UK property industry to deliver and measure true social impact, as a cogent part of their wider stakeholder strategies, is proving much more difficult than Property Week and Newcore had envisaged when we launched the Pro Bono Challenge at RESI last September.
- Insight
It’s time to showcase good work
Newcore Capital and Property Week are launching The Pro Bono Challenge at RESI this month.
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Development as a force for good
At Newcore, we are out twisting the arms of the wealthy and generous of Oxford and the South East to raise £3m of extra funds to regenerate a church, crèche, café, drugs outreach and community centre in one of the poorest parts of Oxford.
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Technology-first view misses the wider societal point
In the last tech boom of 1998-2000, UK property investment went out of vogue as investors flooded to risky but novel technology and internet companies, many of which had strategies that were hard to understand.
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It's time to sacrifice profits to rebalance society
Recent events have provided further evidence of the ideological and socio-economic divide that exists today in the UK.
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For profit and social impact can go hand in hand
As investors in social-infrastructure-related property, we spend a lot of time dealing with D1 use classes - education, healthcare and the like - and the conversion of religious and community-led buildings (also D1/D2) to such uses.
- Markets
Institutional investors increasingly eye up alternatives
With investment in alternatives on the rise, there are opportunities across all elements of the risk spectrum.
- News
Follow the white rabbit — invest in ‘virtual resistant’ real estate
An analogy of film, The Matrix, makes a good point on investment, according to Hugo Llewelyn.
- Insight
Cradle-to-grave property is a core business
“Alternative” real estate, which is gaining in popularity among UK institutional property investors, is alternative by name, but not by nature.