M&G Investments lifting the suspension of its Property Portfolio will be welcomed by investors who have not been able to access their capital for 17 months, but there are “few easy answers” for what comes next, according to commentators.
Many questions also continue to hang over the sector while the industry waits for the results of the Financial Conduct Authority's consultation on liquidity mismatch in open-ended property funds. M&G to reopen property fund after 17-month suspension Head of personal finance at interactive investor Moira O'Neill said that while the review was welcome, the issues around the product "first came to the spotlight" in the wake of the Brexit referendum almost five years ago but began even earlier with a number of property funds suspending during the Global Financial Crisis well over a decade...
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