HMC Capital

HMC Capital has demonstrated how effective its active engagement strategy is with the success of the Sigma/Chemist Warehouse merger. Now David Di Pilla and his team have their sights set firmly on the real estate sector.

With demand for healthcare assets trending in one direction, the surging alternative asset manager has launched its second unlisted institutional fund for the calendar year.

Investors and consultants are bending their efforts to find navigable paths around headwinds buffeting the commercial real estate sector.

HMC has invested heavily in the hope that after 30 years of disappointing shareholders, Lendlease can reinvent itself by shedding non-core assets and recycling capital into its large scale urban projects.

David Di Pilla’s group made its bones flipping unloved real assets into a sprawling network of essential retail centres. Now HMC Capital is leaning into its public/private hybrid style of management and eyeing off investment in a host of sectors.

Eighteen months ago, the fund started by former US banker David Di Pilla announced its target to achieve net-zero for scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by FY28. Alongside this came an energy road map and the first phase of its ‘Energy Management System’, which was subsequently rolled out across 18 sites.

Victoria Hardie from HMC Capital shares insights with Peter White from The Inside Network on constructive, friendly activism to drive long term returns.

Victoria Hardie from HMC Capital shares insights with Peter White from The Inside Network on what key thematic or demographic trends are being targeted.

David Di Pilla’s listed property group is shaking things up with a fund that combines the best features of private and public investing to create a pro-active management style equity fund.

Victoria Hardie from HMC Capital shares insights with Peter White from The Inside Network on what makes a particular asset attractive to an alternative investor.