Commercial property outlook – 2017

Julian Marr is editor of Professional Adviser, Incisive Media’s news, opinion and analysis website for UK financial advisers. Prior to rejoining Incisive in March 2016, he was editorial director of financial adviser resources Adviser-Hub and Events-Hub as well as a regular contributor to a variety of financial magazines and co-author, with Cherry Reynard, of Investing in Emerging Markets – the BRIC economies and beyond, published by John Wiley & Sons. Before joining Adviser-Hub in 2008, he was editorial director of Incisive Media’s Investment Division, including Investment Week and Professional Pensions. His career as an investment journalist, writer and conference moderator now spans two decades, including five as editor and then publisher of personal finance magazine Bloomberg Money. He used to be a solicitor but that really was a very long time ago.

Don Jordison is Managing Director of Threadneedle Property Investments. Don began his career in 1982 at Prudential, following graduation in 1984 with First Class Honours Degree in Urban Estate Surveying. He then joined Allied Dunbar as a trainee property manager in 1985 and obtained Associate Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In 1988 he obtained an MBA from City University. In 1991 he became a Director responsible for the AD Unit Linked Life Property Fund. On the formation of Threadneedle Property Investments in 1994 by merging the property investment activities of Allied Dunbar and Eagle Star, Don joined as a founding director. Don transferred from the AD Life Property Fund in August 1997 to take over the £1 billion AD Pension Property Fund. He left behind a five year record of top quartile performance and outright top fund over 3 years against the Investment Property Databank Monthly Index of 67 performance funds. Alongside these responsibilities Don is also the Fund Manager of The Threadneedle UK Property Trust, Threadneedle Strategic IV and The Low Carbon Workplace Fund.

John is a senior member of the research team with a focus on equity funds. He works closely with a number of our consulting clients, drawing input from the wider team. John started his investment career in 1995 as an analyst at Bank of Bermuda’s London office. Following HSBC’s acquisition of Bank of Bermuda in 2004, he spent two years with the HSBC Multimanager team before moving to Origen as a discretionary portfolio manager. Prior to joining Square Mile John spent six years as an equity fund analyst with S&P Fund Research where he was lead analyst for GEM, Asia ex Japan, EMEA and Latin American funds. John holds the investment management certificate and is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.