Mipim preview: 'SWFs will look at their own markets first'

PropetyEU Magazine features previews of the key seminars at MIPIM in Cannes this week. If there is one panel that poses an open question it is the one entitled 'On the Road Again: Who's Buying Now?'

'A lot of hope was pinned on the German open-ended funds at the beginning of this year,' says Petra Blazkova, associate director of Capital Markets Research at Jones Lang LaSalle in London. At the end of January those hopes were dashed when a number of German open-ended funds managed by companies such as SEB, KanAm and Prudential Financial among others, extended their freeze on redemptions for an additional nine months. The continued closures represent the loss of a potential source of industry recovery but also an investor vacuum. For Blazkova one of the most talked-about issues at this year's Mipim will be the question of which investor group will fill the gap that has been left.

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Preview details

Who: Petra Blazkova, associate director of Capital Markets Research at Jones Lang LaSalle in London
Session: On the Road Again: Who's Buying Now?
When: Tuesday 10 March, 11.30 - 12.30
Where: Esterel Room, Level 5