02 Dec 2025

A high level summary of discussion points at recent committee meetings:

  • Reviewing the Charter ahead of the 2026 Fund Member sign up.
  • Reviewing all of AREF's guidance to ensure it is current, relevant and of consistent format.
  • Creating guidance to support disclosure and reporting, performance measurement, property valuation and governance functions.
  • Exploring new guidance suggestions.
  • Collaborating with relevant internal committees and working groups to provide additional guidance to support AREF's membership.

 

Next meeting: TBC

 

Tags

Committee Update Corporate Governance

Author

Rachel Portlock

Rachel Portlock

Head of Research, AREF

Rachel is responsible for working with a number of AREF committees, including the Research, Corporate Governance and ESG & Impact Investing Committees.

Previous to joining, Rachel worked as an independent investment management professional in real estate and prior to this she spent 11 years at Aviva Investors in the Real Estate Team as a Strategist and six years at Henderson Global Investors. 

Rachel has taken on a number of projects for AREF over the last few years, including the End of Fund Life Project, the Fund Structures Report, the History of AREF and also worked on the Open Ended Fund Pricing Project, in conjunction with INREV.

Return to listing