The Hyde Group is one of the largest housing associations in England, owning or managing about 50,000 homes for more than 100,000 customers in London, the south east of England and neighbouring areas.

They provide homes for those in the communities that cannot otherwise afford one. This helps them improve their life chances, realise their potential, enjoy their environment, work meaningfully and contribute to society. In their 2050 Strategic Plan, A great home for everyone, they have committed to using a mixed-funding model to develop homes in the future, including grant and debt funding and partnerships and joint ventures with housebuilders, local authorities, other housing associations and third party institutional investors. The Hyde Group are supporting this conference because they believe the social housing sector must adopt new approaches to investment and financing, if we are to ‘turn the dial’ to address the severe housing shortage and give more people a home.

Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM) focuses on investments in private markets, including real and corporate assets ‎across the capital structure globally. Launched with the acquisition of Aalto Invest in 2017, Man GPM sources investment opportunities offering differentiated return streams with attractive risk adjusted return potential. With investment teams in the US, the UK and Switzerland, Man GPM's current capabilities include US residential real estate equity and debt, US and European commercial real estate debt, and US direct lending to specialty finance vehicles.

Man GPM takes a hands-on approach to managing investments and seeks to generate alpha through direct origination, in-house structuring and active ongoing involvement in the investments it manages. Launched by Man Group in 2017, Man GPM’s funds under management were $2.5 billion at 30 June 2020. Further information can be found at www.man.com/gpm.