- Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust (AIPUT) is an award-winning expert long-term investor specializing in industrial property at and within major UK airport ecosystems. AIPUT is the only specialist airport-focused industrial fund in the UK for expert institutional investors, with a life until 2036. AIPUT aims to deliver a positive ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance impact from undertaking responsible investment activity throughout its portfolio, with a strategic target to achieve operational carbon neutrality across the portfolio by 2025.
- The fund, which marked its 16-year anniversary in March 2021, manages a prime portfolio of properties providing high-quality and customized warehouse and logistics space:
- £0.8 Billion assets under management (@ June 2021)
- 21 assets, amounting to c2.5m sq ft, spread over 200 acres
- 2.3m sq ft of assets at Heathrow, making AIPUT one of the largest landlords around the airport, serving the evolving needs of the airport and the air-freight related industry, and increasingly the 7 million people that live and work in the area, with the ultimate objective to shape a thriving and resilient airport ecosystem that everyone can benefit from and enjoy
- Assets at London’s three major international airports: Heathrow (92%), Gatwick (4%) and Stansted (2%)
- Clients and investors – pension funds & expert institutional investors
