Key Insights Significantly high institutional ownership implies Legal & General Group's stock price is sensitive to...
British investment managers Legal & General and Schroders are to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial property in the United States, but are largely steering clear of the hard-hit office sector, the companies told Reuters. The fund managers, which oversee more than 1.9 trillion pounds ($2.5 trillion) of assets between them, said they had separately been building up their U.S. real estate teams to make the push, anticipating that property prices will recover, aided by falling interest rates. Legal & General CEO António Simões told Reuters that U.S. real estate was a key expansion market for the company, adding that the market's fundamentals remained strong.
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