Portrait of Alex Moss

Alex Moss

Course Director MSc in Global Finance, Director Real Estate Research Centre

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Finance

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Bayes Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Alex is the Director of the Real Estate Centre at Bayes Business School, and Course Director for the MSc Real Estate course. He was previously the Course Director for the MSc Global Finance online course. He has been involved in research and transactions in the global real estate sector for over 30 years. His career has encompassed award-winning sell-side research (BZW), investment banking (CSFB), private equity (Apax Partners Capital), and fund management (M&G and Investec). He formed AME Capital in 2002, which developed a proprietary database and analytical tool for all listed real estate companies and real estate securities funds globally. This business was sold to Macquarie Securities in 2008, where he stayed for over three years as Head of Global Property Securities Analytics. In 2012 he formed Consilia Capital, a real estate investment advisory firm, and has developed an international institutional client base, as well as publishing regularly in academic journals. He is an acknowledged international expert in REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts ) and is asked to speak on the topic around the world. His work in this field has had a significant impact at both national and international levels, and he is on the Advisory Board and chairs the Research Committee for EPRA, whose members own more than €840 BN of real estate assets globally. He has won prizes for his paper on blending direct and listed real estate and is a guest lecturer on REITs for postgraduate courses at Cambridge University and University College London. He has held roles as Visiting Professor at Henley Business School and City University, and been responsible for transformational change through educational leadership with his work on the online Global Finance and online Global MBA courses, as well as his innovative 6-week online "Understanding the REIT Price" course.

Employment

  • Visiting Lecturer, Cambridge University, Sep 2020 – present
  • Director, Real Estate Centre, Sep 2018 – present
  • Visiting Professor, Henley Business School, University of Reading,, Jan 2017 – present
  • External Examiner, University of Cambridge, Sep 2016 – Sep 2020
  • Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), Jan 2016 – Sep 2018
  • Visiting Lecturer, University College London, London, Oct 2015 – present
  • Chairman, Investment Committee, Investec Global Real Estate Securities Fund, Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
  • Founder, Consilia Capital, May 2012 – present

Visiting appointments

  • Visiting Professor, Henley Business School, Jan 2015 – present
  • Visiting Lecturer, University College London, Oct 2014 – present

Memberships of committees

  • Chairman, EPRA Research Committee, Sep 2016 – present
  • Chairman, Investment Committee, Investec Global Real Estate Securities Fund, Investec Asset Management

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Member of the Advisory Board, European Public Real Estate (EPRA), Sep 2016 – present
  • Member of Advisory Board, Journal of European Real Estate Research, Oct 2015 – present

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Asset Pricing
  • Asset Valuation
  • Finance
  • Real Estate Finance

Additional topics

  • Capital Markets

Industries

  • financial services

Publications

  1. Moss, A., Clare, A., Thomas, S. and Seaton, J. (2015). Trend following and momentum strategies for global reits. Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 21(1), pp. 21–31.
  2. Moss, A. and Baum, A. (2013). The use of listed real estate securities in asset management. EPRA.

Chapters (6)

  1. Moss, A. (2018). Chapter 2 Post-Modern REIT Era: Strategies for REIT Style and Significance. The Routledge REITs Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66483-7.
  2. Moss, A. (2018). Chapter 7 REIT Asset Allocation Alex Moss. The Routledge REITs Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66483-7.
  3. Moss, A. (2018). 10 REITs in Europe. The Routledge REITs Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66483-7.
  4. Moss, A. (2018). Chapter 6 Fund Managers. Routledge Companion to Real Estate Investment Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-68784-9.
  5. Lee, S. and Moss, A. (2018). Chapter 7: REIT Asset Allocation. In Parker, D. (Ed.), The Routledge REITs Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66482-0.
  6. Lee, S. and Moss, A. (2018). Chapter 1: Critical Contextual Issues in International REITs. In Parker, D. (Ed.), The Routledge REITs Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66482-0.

Journal articles (9)

  1. Newell, G., Nanda, A. and Moss, A. (2023). Improving the benchmarking of ESG in real estate investment. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 41(4), pp. 380–405. doi:10.1108/jpif-10-2021-0084.

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  2. Farrelly, K. and Moss, A. (2021). Reexamining the Real Estate Quadrants. The Journal of Portfolio Management, 47(10), pp. 62–74. doi:10.3905/jpm.2021.1.271.

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  3. Moss, A., Clare, A., Thomas, S. and Seaton, J. (2017). Can sector-specific REIT strategies outperform a diversified benchmark? Journal of European Real Estate Research, 10(3), pp. 366–383. doi:10.1108/jerer-11-2016-0042.

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  4. Hoesli, M., Milcheva, S. and Moss, A. (2017). Is Financial Regulation Good or Bad for Real Estate Companies? – An Event Study. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. doi:10.1007/s11146-017-9634-z.
  5. Moss, A., Clare, A., Seaton, J. and Thomas, S. (2017). The Blended Approach to Real Estate Allocations: Performance Implications of Combining an Exposure to German Spezialfonds with Global Listed Real Estate Securities. Alternative Investment Analysts' Review.
  6. Lux, N. and Moss, A. (2016). Liquidity in global real estate securities markets. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 34(4), pp. 321–346. doi:10.1108/jpif-11-2015-0078.

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  7. Moss, A. and Farrelly, K. (2015). The performance of a blended real estate portfolio for UK DC investors. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 33(2), pp. 156–168. doi:10.1108/jpif-10-2014-0064.

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  8. Moss, A. and Farrelly, K. (2014). BLENDING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REAL ESTATE ALLOCATIONS FOR DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PENSION FUNDS: A U.K. CASE STUDY. Journal of Real Estate Literature, 20(3), pp. 137–150.
  9. Moss, A. and Lux, N. (2014). The impact of liquidity on the valuation of European real estate securities. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 7(2), pp. 139–157. doi:10.1108/jerer-12-2013-0026.

    [publisher’s website]

Reports (4)

  1. Moss, A. (2017). REIT Research Compendium. London: Consilia Capital.
  2. Moss, A. and Baum, A. (2013). Are listed real estate stocks managed as part of the real estate allocation?.
  3. Moss, A. and Primer, A.D. Asia Pacific Listed Real Estate: A Contextual Performance Analysis..
  4. Moss, A. Benchmarking Real Estate Investment Performance: The role of ESG Factors A report commissioned by the Investment Property Forum..

Scholarly edition

  1. Hoesli, M., Milcheva, S. and Moss, A. Real Estate Company Reactions to Financial Market Regulation.

Professional activities

Other

  1. External Examiner, MSt Real Estate, Cambridge University.