Alpha Real Trust targets investment, development, financing and other opportunities in real estate, real estate operating companies and securities, real estate services, infrastructure, infrastructure services, other asset-backed businesses and related operations and services businesses that offer attractive risk-adjusted total returns.
Strategy
Alpha Real Trust Limited (‘the Company’ or ‘ART’ or ‘the Group’) targets investment, development, financing and other opportunities in real estate, real estate operating companies and securities, real estate services, infrastructure, infrastructure services, other asset-backed businesses and related operations and services businesses that offer attractive risk-adjusted total returns.
ART currently focusses on asset-backed lending, debt investments and high return property investments in Western Europe that are capable of delivering strong risk adjusted cash flows.
The portfolio mix at 30 September 2020, excluding sundry assets/liabilities, was as follows:
| 30 September 2020 | |||
| High return debt: | 29.4% | ||
| High return equity in property investments: | 21.0% | ||
| Other investments | 0.6% | ||
| Cash | 49.0% |
The Company currently plans to invest the majority of its cash into secured senior or secured mezzanine debt and subject to how the Covid-19 situation unfolds.
Dividends
The current intention of the Directors is to pay a dividend and offer a scrip dividend alternative quarterly to all shareholders.
Listing
The Company’s shares are traded on the Specialist Fund Segment (‘SFS’) of the London Stock Exchange (‘LSE’), ticker ARTL: LSE.
Management
The Company’s Investment Manager is Alpha Real Capital LLP (‘ARC’), whose team of investment and asset management professionals focus on the potential to enhance earnings in addition to adding value to the underlying assets, and also focus on the risk profile of each investment within the capital structure to best deliver attractive risk adjusted returns.
Control of the Company rests with the non-executive Guernsey based Board of Directors.
Company’s asset allocation by sector and investment at 30 September 2020
