AI Fund Awards 2017

22 Acquisition International - International Fund Awards 2017 AMPERE Gestion Augentius Group Best French Real Estate Fund (1 Year): FLI & Best Real Estate Fund Manager - France Best PE Fund Administration Firm - UK AMPERE Gestion Augentius Group AMPERE Gestion is a fund management company and subsidiary of SNI, a French leader in housing, with more than 340,000 units. We caught up with Vincent Mahe to find out more. Augentius is one of the leading Private Equity and Real Estate solutions providers in the world. We profile the firm to explore the range of solutions it offers. Company: AMPERE Gestion Name: Vincent Mahe Email: [email protected] Web: www.amperegestion -groupesni.fr Address: 100, avenue de France – 75013 Paris (France) Telephone: + 33 (0)1 55 03 30 95 Company: Augentius Group Address: Two London Bridge, London, SE1 9RA, UK Phone: +4420 7397 5450 Web: www.augentius.com GROUPECAISSEDESDÉPÔTS IF17025 IF17035 Since its creation in 2014, AMPERE has raised 2.35 bn in equity commitments, created four funds and acquired more than 10,000 residential units on behalf of its first two funds. AMPERE (which stands for ‘Asset Management and Private Equity for Real Estate’) acts exclusively in the real estate industry, with a strong emphasis in those sectors where SNI and Caisse des depots can rely on a competitive edge and demonstrate a strong record of successful investment, namely housing, emergency accommodation, hotels and leisure, development, public equipment and infrastructure, real estate portfolio management, property management and services to local authorities. Vincent outlines the innovative nature of the fund’s focus and how it aims to offer a unique investment opportunity. “Real estate markets in France have enjoyed a strong growth over the past years, but excess cash and liquidity creates a challenge for asset-pricing, especially on core markets. The heightened competition for core assets has led investors to find new ways of taking on risk to increase return. In this environment, AMPERE Gestion strategy is to target niche sectors, with a defensive risk-return profile supported by long-term structural drivers. Established in 2002, Augentius has operational offices across Europe, Africa the US and Asia and delivers solutions to clients based in over 35 countries. Clients range from small first-time funds to some of the largest funds in the world. Working together across a range of structures, both on and off-shore, from the simplest single country structures and funds to some of the most complex multi- geographic structures, all solutions and services are tailored to the specific needs of each client. Augentius Depositary provides AIFMD compliant Depositary Solutions, from both the UK and Luxembourg to both EU and none EU managers. It now provides solutions to some of the very largest Private Equity and Real Estate funds in the world and through the solutions provided allow non EU managers to market their funds to German and Danish investors Increasingly managers are seeking to outsource the workloads regarding the expanding burden of regulatory reporting. As such, Augentius’s AIFMD and FATCA/ CRS reporting solutions continue to be in high demand from managers. Similarly, its’ Regulatory Compliance and Company Secretarial solutions take both work and risk away from managers – providing the solutions, delivered by experts that managers need “When we set up the FLI, this was the first French fund dedicated to intermediate housing. FLI succeeded in demonstrating that it was possible to get 17 French institutional investors to invest again on a large scale in housing outside Paris, an asset class from which they had completely withdrawn since 2005. “More recently, on behalf of our second intermediate housing fund (SLI), we signed a loan agreement of € 500 million with the European Investment Bank which was one of the first initiatives carried out by the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (also known as “Juncker plan”), and the first one in real estate.” AMPERE is currently closing a € 200 million fund (“Hemisphere”) which will be the first French “social impact bond” of that size: acting on behalf of the Fund, AMPERE has already secured the acquisition of 60 budget hotels which will be converted in accommodation facilities to help face the migration crisis currently experienced by France in the wake of the war in Syria. This will provide the firm with many exciting opportunities for future grow and expansion. Augentius does not just provide solutions to manager. Its Investor Solutions division specifically focusses on Private Equity and Real Estate Investors – providing complex Portfolio Administration and Reporting solutions along with detailed Investment Analysis. Every solution is specifically tailored to the specific needs of each institutional investor – ranging from full banking and cash forecasting solutions to detailed full transparency reporting and analysis. Overall, with a dedicated team of experts, providing help and guidance to Fund Managers and Investors across the globe, Augentius provides the solutions and expertise that its clients need, when they need it.