ICAM Funds

SENIORS LIVING FUND

Diversified Seniors Living Fund

The ICAM Diversified Seniors Living Fund (“IDSLF”) is an open-ended diversified Fund created with the aim of providing investors with reliable yields, strong capital growth and reduced risk via geographic diversification through a pipeline of seniors living assets located across Australia and sourced off-market via ICAM’s industry networks.

$26M

GROSS ASSET VALUE

As at 31 Dec 2023

         

7.5%

TARGET INCOME YIELD

Average over 5 years

14%

TARGET IRR

         

Founded in April 2022, the Fund will target assets in differing stages of their lifecycle, including mature operating assets, newly developed operating assets and may undertake full or partial development of assets where risk adjusted returns are complementary to the Fund.

The Fund has been created to capitalise on Australia’s demographic trends. As the population ages, a generational opportunity is emerging to capture the resulting demand for seniors living accommodation. Combined with a chronic undersupply of seniors living accommodation across Australia the Fund aims to acquire assets via off market transactions at high discount rates and with significant aggregate valuation upside.

The Fund currently has two wholly owned retirement village assets with a total of 450 independent living units and apartments. The seed asset for the Fund was Langton Park, a well-established retirement village located in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs. The Fund’s second asset is The Elms Retirement Estate located in Kilmore in the northern growth corridor of the Melbourne metropolitan area.

The Fund has a strong pipeline of diverse off market acquisitions and intends to build a fund size of $150M-$300M with 10-15 assets nationally.

Currently Open for Investment

Investment Highlights
  • The ICAM Diversified Seniors Living Fund currently owns three well-performing villages.
  • There is a very strong demographic trend of an increasing ageing population in Australia and severe shortage of retirement living accommodation. This is evidenced by the national occupancy rates across all Australian villages reaching record highs of 96%.
  • Our Fund has a solid 3-year track record, with all our villages increasing in valuation and delivering a 7.5% p.a. consistent distribution yield to investors.
  • Low gearing: Gearing target at portfolio level is 35-45% excluding development funding.
  • There is a lagged correlation in retirement living units to residential house price growth which should reflect in an uplift to future retirement living valuations.
  • The Fund aims to acquire a diversified national portfolio of 10-15 seniors living assets up to a total value of c.$300M.
  • Initial redemption opportunity in 2029 and liquidity windows every 3 years thereafter.
Michael Ruggiero
Chair

ACA, CTA, Dip. FinServ

Freddy Bartlett
Managing Director

FGLF14, GAICD, CIMA, GradCertAppFin, BA (PolSci, BusLaw)

Jim Hazel
Director

FAICD, Fellow University of South Australia, Fellow FINSIA, B.Econ

Alok Kumar
Independent Director

MBA, GAICD

Andrew Veitch
Director

CA, CTA MTax (Law/Tax), B.Com (Acc), Dipl. Financial Services

Alok Kumar

MBA, GAICD