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People Property Place

#12 James Farmer, Co-Founder of Boreal Investment Management

Feb 2, 2023
47:55
Headquartered in London, Boreal is an opportunity driven investment manager with a current focus on logistics and light-industrial properties across Europe. Set up in 2022, it is led by its founding partners former Blackstone, TPG and Europa execs who secured €1bn of equity from Canadian pension giant Cadillac Fairview, with a plan to create a €3bn pan European portfolio. I sat down with James to discuss a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics:
  • How he got into the Real Estate industry
  • A key skill needed to get into real estate private equity
  • Setting up Boreal
  • Going from 0-€700m AUM in 1 year
  • Assembling a high performing team
  • Vision for the future
  • Oh and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place James would invest should he have £500m of equity at his disposal.
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