Invest & Fund Blog

In this week's blog, the first in a two-part special, we quite simply make a bullish case for looking more closely at fixed income alternatives. When volatility spikes, fixed income becomes attractive for reasons that are almost insultingly simple. The income is contractual, and the timeline is defined. As the return profile is known at the point of entry, the value of...

In Part 1, we made the macro case: why geopolitical volatility, stretched equity valuations, and the ever-present oil risk have sent serious investors back to the fixed income playbook and why the defining characteristics of that playbook (defined returns, finite timelines, contractual income, insulation from daily noise) are exactly what Invest&Fund's development ...

In this week's blog, we are leaning into some truths that always make for an interesting read: call it an honest health update on the market, a frank look at what's making life difficult for development finance lenders and why pretending otherwise helps nobody! There's a version of this piece that begins with some upbeat line about green shoots and cautious optimism. T...

Nine billion is a really, really big number. It’s not the UK's housing deficit. It's not the infrastructure funding gap. It's not even a government budget line. It's the amount of developer contributions, which is essentially money paid by housebuilders as a direct condition of planning permission, currently sitting unspent in local authority accounts across England and W...