Barings has plans to invest €3 billion ($3.63 billion) across debt and equity as it looks to respond to COVID-19 related market disruption and prudently deploy the capital it raised for its core and value-add strategies in 2020, as well as its separate account and co-investment ventures.
“In 2021 we are aiming to invest over €2 billion [$2.4 billion] in our strong conviction asset classes, offices and logistics, and will place an additional focus on the ‘everything with beds’ sector, including build to rent, student housing and micro/serviced living. We will be looking to make these acquisitions in our preferred European geographies: the Nordics, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Spain,” said Gunther Deutsch, head of real estate transactions – Europe at Barings.
Industrial and logistics remains one of the company’s long-term conviction calls, with the social and technological drivers accelerating in 2020 due to the pandemic
