29 Feb 2024

The ESG & Impact Investing Committee is pleased to announce the GRESB scores for AREF funds for 2023:

Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark
2023 AREF GRESB Performance

 

Overall Score: AREF member funds outperformed the UK benchmark in 2023 by 3 percentage points with a score of 76%. The response rate of AREF member funds in the 2023 GRESB survey was 94%.

Management: In this section AREF member funds scored 29/30 compared to the UK benchmark average of 28/30.

Performance: In this section AREF member funds scored 47/70 compared to the UK benchmark average of 45/70.

 

For more information on the ESG & Impact Investing Committee, please visit our page here.

 

Source: AREF ESG & Social Impact Committee

Author

Katie Jowett

Katie Jowett

Fund Manager, La Salle Investment Management

Katie is the Chair of the AREF ESG & Social Impact Investing Committee. 

Katie is a Fund Manager within LaSalle Global Partner Solutions, having joined the team in 2010.  She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto, a MSc. in Real Estate from CASS Business School and the CFA Society of the UK, Investment Management Certificate. 

As well as being Chair of the AREF ESG & Social Impact Investing Committee, she is also Chair of the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) Advisory Committee and member of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Property Working Group.