Expertise

Investment Funds

The majority of our portfolio consists of shopping centres, office buildings and multiresidential properties owned directly, either alone or in partnership. Rounding out our portfolio are indirect investments that we make indirectly through a limited number of carefully selected real estate investment funds.

Hotels

In addition, we own interests in various hotels, the vast majority of which have been identified as non-strategic assets. In 2011, we established a disposal program in order to sell these properties in an orderly fashion in the coming years. It should be noted that a small number of Canadian hotels, which are considered strategic assets, are excluded from the program.

Our investment strategy consists of three basic elements:

- Concentrating our portfolio on a limited number of regions;

- Building and maintaining strategic relationships with key partners;

- Focusing on the most promising sectors in our core markets and a select number of high-growth countries.

Strategic partnerships

Ivanhoé Cambridge occasionally enters into strategic partnerships with companies that are well-established in target markets and which have a high level of expertise in our areas of activity. Such partnerships help maximize the number and quality of business opportunities in our core markets.

Platforms

Creating investment platforms is one of several innovative approaches we use to achieve our business goals. Such platforms offer access to a wider range of quality investment opportunities, a large network of exceptional contacts and in-depth knowledge of specific markets.

In addition, investment platforms strengthen our ability to participate in sizeable, complex transactions, helping to generate a critical mass of assets in targeted markets.

Ivanhoé Cambridge puts this strategy to use in areas such as the office sector in the United States, shopping centres in Brazil and the residential market in the United Kingdom.