Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
The Association of Real Estate Funds |
| Acronym: |
AREF
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| Legal status: |
UK company limited by guarantee, not for profit organisation
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| Website address: |
http://www.aref.org.uk
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
John Cartwright
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| Position: |
Chief Executive |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Mark Sherwin
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| Position: |
Secretary General |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
65 Kingsway
London WC2B 6TD
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44 20) 7269 4677 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
We promote the interests of member funds by:
•Ensuring that members offer consistently high quality products and support services to investors and their advisers, and by enhancing the understanding of real estate funds by those users through our governance and transparency standards;
•Informing, influencing and lobbying policy makers, tax and regulatory authorities, and other official bodies to achieve the optimum business environment for real estate funds, through the work of our Executive, Secretariat, Committees and Working Groups;
•Influencing the evolution of our industry by
(i) seeking ways to enhance the products and services offered by members;
(ii) addressing the concerns of third party stakeholders, and;
(iii) developing members’ understanding of new asset types; through promotion of debate, arrangement or sponsorship of events, and commissioned research.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- External Relations
- Internal Market
- Taxation
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Member of the Property Industry Alliance (PIA)- a cross industry group representing the commercial property industry.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
10/2010
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10/2011
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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