Member Roundtable with MSCI: Changes to the Index

Justin is the Chair of the AREF Research & Information Committee. 

Justin is Managing Director at BlackRock, and a member of the Real Estate Team and Portfolio Manager of the BlackRock UK Property Fund. He is responsible for management and performance of the Fund. He leads a team of investment professionals dedicated to the management of the Fund.

Justin joined BlackRock from UBS Global Asset Management in 2012. He has worked within the UK property industry for 18 years focusing primarily on fund management and investment.

Justin has a Bachelor of Economics degree from University of Tasmania (Australia) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Estate Management from Southbank University. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2000.

 

Mark Clacy-Jones is Senior Fund Strategist at abrdn, responsible for producing, guiding and facilitating optimal fund level strategy across the global suite of abrdn funds. This role also focuses on understanding the performance drivers of funds and their risk levels. Prior to joining Standard Life Investments in January 2017, Mark spent 9 years at IPD, and subsequently MSCI, working in a range of global research roles including Head of Indices and ultimately Head of Applied Real Estate Research. Mark also had a brief spell setting up a Data & Analytics function for Knight Frank’s Research Team just prior to joining SLI.

A former Chair of the Society of Property Researchers, Mark currently sits on advisory committees for AREF & MSCI, and is actively involved in initiatives for INREV & the IPF.

Mark holds a BA Economics from Leicester University and a MA Business & Management in Emerging Markets from Reading University.

Hélène works in the Real Estate part of MSCI, where she heads the team of UK Client Consultants. Hélène has worked at MSCI, formerly IPD, for 13 years. She has held several positions over the years, both in Coverage and Product Management. Before working in the Coverage team, Hélène was instrumental in establishing a number of MSCI’s leading products such as the IPD Rental Information Service (IRIS) and the Global Property Fund Index.

Malcolm has 25 years of experience in real estate data, modelling and risk management techniques.  He founded Real Estate Strategies in 2013, an independent management owned business that provides high quality forecasts, research and strategic consulting on the European real estate market.  Prior to Real Estate Strategies, Malcolm was Director of Research at IPD and prior to that Head of Research and Strategy at Legal & General Property.

Tony is a fund manager in Kames Capital’s property multi manager team with responsibility for developing portfolio strategies, fund research and dealing. He joined Kames Capital in 2012 from ING, where he was a UK fund manager in the ING Real Estate Select team, and has more than 10 years’ experience in the property market.

Tony studied Economics at the London School of Economics and was formerly chair of the IPF/Property Derivatives Interest Group’s technical subcommittee, co-author of the PDIG report “Getting into Property Derivatives”, and oversaw  £350m of property derivative strategies at ING Real Estate.