{"id":3382,"date":"2018-03-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/270-k332.vsrv02.live.k332.ext.trafo2.de\/kgal-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary-following-a-record-year\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:06:41","slug":"kgal-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary-following-a-record-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/kgal-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary-following-a-record-year\/","title":{"rendered":"KGAL celebrates its 50th anniversary following a record year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u20ac2.8 billion of new business in 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c. \u20ac1.5 billion in equity placed with institutional investors in 2017<\/li>\n<li>Assets under Management increased 5.6% to \u20ac22.7 billion<\/li>\n<li>KGAL will invest in new markets and business segments in 2018 with \u201cNew Frontiers\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Digital Online platform to be launched by mid-2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are starting our anniversary year with a record result,\u201d emphasises Gert<br \/> Waltenbauer, CEO of KGAL GmbH &#038; Co. KG. Founded in 1968, today the KGAL<br \/> Group is one of the leading independent European real asset investment and<br \/> asset management companies. \u201cWe are in an excellent position for 2018 and the<br \/> next 50 years ahead.\u201d At \u20ac1.5 billion, 66% more investor equity was placed than<br \/> in the previous year (2016: \u20ac0.9 billion). Waltenbauer adds: \u201cWe continue to<br \/> achieve consistent growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The KGAL Group will expand its core business this year and take steps to further<br \/> globalise its activities, through the creation of new institutional investment<br \/> products across its three assets classes: the real estate, infrastructure and<br \/> aviation asset classes. In the real estate field, institutional investors will be given<br \/> the opportunity to subscribe to investments that harness the key developing<br \/> trends in the sector and allow clients the ability to be more opportunistic in their<br \/> asset allocation. In the infrastructure asset class, KGAL is expanding its range of<br \/> activities in the renewable energy generation segment to investments in the<br \/> general energy sector.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>KGAL New Frontiers: investments in new markets and products<\/strong><br \/> New regions and investment topics are the focus of the newly established KGAL<br \/> New Frontiers GmbH &#038; Co. KG. The rationale of KGAL New Frontiers is to<br \/> source, assess and analyse high-interest real asset investments across new<br \/> markets &#038; sectors and, provided that the test phase is successful, enable them to<br \/> become available for institutional investors. The company\u2019s initial activities<br \/> include investment in an Eastern European hydroelectric plant operator and a<br \/> joint venture with a Scandinavian state energy provider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KGAL goes digital: online platform for retail sales<\/strong><br \/> The KGAL Group is developing an online platform and investment products with<br \/> an in-house fintech team. Gert Waltenbauer: \u201cTangible assets are still attractive<br \/> for private clients. However, apart from a limited number of traditional closed<br \/> funds, this area offers few investment opportunities.\u201d Bearing in mind that private<br \/> clients will increasingly purchase financial products via the internet in the future,<br \/> this niche is ripe for exploitation. Market testing of the platform is scheduled to<br \/> take place in mid-2018.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Real estate: value-added management<\/strong> offers more opportunities for growth<br \/> The managed investment volume in the real estate asset class remains<br \/> unchanged at c.\u20ac6.9 billion, despite planned divestitures in legacy business. The<br \/> expansion of mandates with equity commitments of more than \u20ac1.0 billion was a<br \/> contributing factor here, with successful transactions for several office and retail<br \/> properties having been concluded. The transaction volume in four European<br \/> markets was over \u20ac1.5 billion in the 2017 fiscal year. With the foundation of the<br \/> new strategic value-added management business unit in July 2017, KGAL has<br \/> been working consistently on expanding its value product chain.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Infrastructure: first close of ESPF 4 with equity of \u20ac255 million<\/strong><br \/> In 2017, the KGAL Group announced the first close on its ESPF 4 fund at \u20ac255<br \/> million. Four major European institutional investors committed to this total and, in<br \/> doing so, supported the continuing global expansion of KGAL\u2019s renewable<br \/> business. ESPF 4 is a SICAV-SIF vehicle based in Luxembourg and pursues a<br \/> core plus investment strategy for renewable energy. The second close is<br \/> expected in Q2 2018 with three more national and international investors.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Aviation: expertise wins multiple awards<\/strong><br \/> The aviation asset class recorded a managed investment volume of more than \u20ac2<br \/> billion for the 2017 fiscal year (2016: \u20ac1.3 billion). The new business volume was<br \/> \u20ac1.3 billion in the same period (2016: \u20ac1.0 billion). This represents an increase of<br \/> 30% on the previous year. The KGAL Group won two awards last year for its<br \/> market position, set-up and placement within the aviation asset class: the GTF<br \/> (Global Transport Finance) Award 2017 and the Scope Alternative Investment<br \/> Award 2018, both in the \u201cTransportation\u201d category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KGAL Group has enjoyed an outstanding fiscal year. In 2017, the independent investment and asset management company achieved a new business volume of c. \u20ac2.8 billion. This represents an increase of 47% on the previous year (2016: \u20ac1.9 billion). The assets under management increased from \u20ac21.5 billion in 2016 to \u20ac22.7 billion in the 2017 fiscal year (growth of 5.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-unternehmen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}