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IPF Educational Trust

The Investment Property Forum Educational Trust is one of the leading property industry charities. It exists to advance education in connection with investment property. It also supports and promotes research into the operation of the property investment market and has funded a range of leading projects.

Originally established by the Forum, the main aim of the Educational Trust (wholly independent of the IPF) is the advancement of education in connection with the financing, development, management, valuation and ownership and marketing of property. The Trust's role is to:

  • Place property into context with other investment markets.
  • Have an understanding of investors' requirements.
  • Utilise sound analytic techniques & comprehend the effect of economic forces on the marketplace.
  • Recognise roles played by traded property vehicles.
  • Distinguish property's role in a diversified portfolio.
  • Have a thorough grasp of the regulatory framework in which investment markets operate.
  • Have a full knowledge of taxation issues that affect UK and overseas property investors.
  • Identify factors in the international markets which have a bearing on the UK property market.
  • Be versed in property performance measurement, explicit and implicit appraisal techniques.
  • Fund and commission research which is to the public benefit, and particularly advances the knowledge of property in an investment and corporate context.

For further information contact Andrew Kearley FCA, Secretary to the Trust and Honorary Treasurer: edtrust@ipf.org.uk

Trustees

The Trustees are appointed in accordance with the Deed of January 1995 and comprise:

Patron:

Sir John Ritblat, FRICS

Trustees:

Stuart Beevor BSc FRICS  - Grosvenor
Simon Clark BA Solicitor - Linklaters
Andrew Graham MA FRICS CDipAF (Chairman of the Trustees)
Christopher Jolly MA FCIB FRSA
Julia Martin MA MRICS - King Sturge
Philip Nelson BSc FRICS - Trehaven Group Ltd

Secretary to the Trust and Honorary Treasurer:

Andrew Kearley FCA

Auditors:

Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP
Aquis House,
49-51 Blagrave Street
Reading
Berkshire RG1 1PL

Report & Accounts

Download Report of the Trustees 2009