About CBRE Global Investors
Founded in 1972, CBRE Global Investors is one of the leading firms in the real estate investment industry. CBRE seeks to understand how different communities work, live and interact with buildings around them, in order to develop investment strategies to create value in line with their clients’ risk and return requirements.
The firm acquires, develops and manages real estate with the aim of producing returns for clients. Clients are predominantly made up of pension funds or insurance funds (whose aim is to invest their capital in order to create a return so they can meet their pension fund and insurance liabilities (payments to pensioners or payments to policy holders).
The CBRE Global Investors Investment Manager Analyst internships
There are 3 internships available, with the placements taking place between June – December 2021. This role provides an excellent opportunity to gain a sneak peek into what an entry level analyst does within the company.
What will you need in order to succeed?
You need to have great analytical skills and to have completed a course in mathematics, statistics, finance, accounting, geography, economics, law or similar while studying for your degree.
In addition to furthering your technical skills and introducing you to the world of real estate CBRE will build on these soft skills that you have:
What will you be doing?
Each of the three successful interns will be placed in a department that best suits their skills and aspirations.
Main Duties and Responsibilities include:
Examples of departments you could join:
Many of these will be household names such as Unilever, BBC and Shell. The investments will include high street retail, retail parks, offices, industrial, hotels, leisure and residential. The role involves all parts of the investment process, from identifying new investment opportunities, valuing and buying buildings, managing the assets, identifying new tenants, refurbishing the assets and potentially selling. There will be the opportunity to learn from a range of third party advisors, including property managers, lawyers, letting agents and accountants and gain a good understanding of building and asset managing a multi-sector UK portfolio.
The team is responsible for investing in and managing real estate across Europe and across all sectors including shopping centres, high street retail, logistics warehouses, office buildings and residential accommodation. They are actively involved in all stages of the investment process and are responsible for finding new opportunities, buying assets and managing investments for the two funds in the fund series. The team follows a “value add” strategy which involves repositioning or developing assets.
Key responsibilities include assessing and excel modelling potential new acquisitions, preparing proposals to senior management and clients, monitoring existing investments to ensure adherence to business plans, attending asset management meetings, identifying value enhancement initiatives, updating asset financial models and preparing communication materials for the investors. You will use your analytical capabilities and abilities in Excel and PowerPoint.
Examples
An example of an investment might be acquiring an office building in central London, refurbishing it completely, creating outdoor spaces such as balconies and roof terraces, and installing the latest smart building technology to ensure people want to work there. Another example might be acquiring land across France and working with a local partner to build logistics warehouses for tenants such as Amazon so they can meet local and global e-commerce demand.
The Pan European Core Fund management team consists of twelve people split into three business lines – portfolio management, finance and investors. The team was formed in 2010 when it launched the Pan European Core Fund to institutional investors. The Fund has grown to circa EUR 5bn AUM comprising a total of 69 assets spread across eleven countries. The Fund management team work closely with the local internal asset management, transactions and finance team across Europe as well as reporting accurate and detailed data to the 124 investors in the fund through monthly, quarterly and annual reports. The role will focus on all three sections of portfolio team, including asset management, reporting, investor requests and acquisitions.
The indirect investment strategies team is a market leader in the provision of global real estate investment solutions that are tailored to each of our clients and their individual investment requirements. The team acts as a strategic partner, helping pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors understand and execute their bespoke investment needs. Incoming interns will be responsible for supporting the investment teams and portfolio management teams in managing client portfolios, monitoring investment decisions and executing transactions.
Specific workstreams from past years include attending asset tours, meetings with external fund managers, meetings with internal investment teams and assisting portfolio managers in monitoring, constructing and reporting on client’s portfolios. Furthermore, interns will be expected to help maintain each client’s investment plan, balancing existing investments with potential new opportunities, as well as creating presentations for upcoming client meetings.
This team plays a key role formulating the firm’s investment strategy. They analyse the impact of economic drivers and capital market trends on the property market. Their responsibilities are highly varied, with the team providing insights along the entirety of the investment process. They work closely with transaction teams that purchase buildings and help steer portfolio decision making. They also participate in the investment committee and routinely speak with investors. The core focus of the internship will be supporting the team conducting primary research into niche property sectors, such as data centres, cold storage, urban agriculture and micro housing. You will utilise analytical skills and expand your interest in the built environment.
The Environmental Social Governance (ESG) team of four works on corporate and investment sustainability. We have a global scope, covering our operations, and real estate, infrastructure, debt and equity asset management. ESG, and especially the climate change impacts, has skyrocketed to the top of our stakeholder’s priority list, employees, clients, tenants and suppliers alike, and this team is right at the centre of it all! We have launched an exciting new global Sustainability Vision, focusing on “Climate”, “People” and “Influence” and in the intern role you will be working with the team on development of the toolkit for its implementation, measurement and reporting.
The CBRE RISE values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence) are the foundation of the business and how employees work on a day-to-day-basis. They work as a team and believe in the strength of collaboration; inspiring each other, sharing knowledge and best practices at all levels and across all offices.
You will receive two weeks of high quality training immediately before you start your placement. Valued at over £2,000, this is designed to help you to develop the skills and qualities employers are looking for and to feel prepared and ‘day one ready’ for when the internship starts.
Communication Skills
Business English
Personal Impact
Networking Skills
Managing your Manager
Project Management
Introduction to the City & financial services
Mental Health Awareness
Workload Management
Effective Teamwork
Excel and Outlook
Presentation Skills
Recall days
Review meetings
Mentor
Group support
Applications are now closed
w/c 1st February: Assessment days carried out by ELBA
31st May: Start of programme