Charter Hall’s hit the fund-raising trail to raise $75 million for its second fund in the Wholesale Property Series (WPS).
The WPS is a fund-of-fund targeted at high-net-worth types that invest in a mixed bag of Charter Hall’s commercial property assets.
The firm raised its first iteration two years ago, bringing in $278 million and returning 19.1 per cent on an annualised basis since then.
It began mailing out detailed information memorandums for WPS2 (official name: Charter Hall Wholesale Property Series No.2) this month with an initial $75 million target.
But the fundraising period would run for two years, making it likely the end size would match its older siblings’.
The fund is closed-ended with a seven-year term, with realisations to start from the fourth year. That’s a long lock-in commitment and potential investors were reminded of the rewards of patience; the fund is targeting total returns of 8 to 9 per cent with quarterly distributions.
Office and industrials (including logistics) were top of the list for allocations at 20 to 50 per cent of the portfolio each, followed by smaller allocations to long-WALE (10 to 40 per cent), social infrastructure (up to 30 per cent) and listed REITs (up to 15 per cent).
Charter Hall’s divvying up the initial $75 million across five of its funds, where the WPS2 would be either the institutional pooled investor or an institutional partner depending on the fund structure.
That’s 210 properties with 98.6 per cent occupancy and Telstra, David Jones, Bunnings, Macquarie and Aldi among the largest tenants, potential investors were told.
Charter Hall’s grown from $500 million in 2004 to $79.5 billion in group fund under management at December end. The wholesale segment has been a big part of its growth and accounted for $38.5 billion of the $61.3 billion it has in property.
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