About TSC:
At present the firm's primary focus is on residential real estate in the UK, Europe and North America; for which TSC iLAB has developed proprietary technology enabling AIM to strategically target alpha, while scaling and managing large portfolios of single unit residential assets for our investors (e.g. single family homes).
At TSC we look to fully integrate technology across both our investment and asset management processes, so we can reduce costs for our investors, streamline our fund operations, attempt to generate alpha, and unlock new strategies.
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What we do:
Why SFR? With bond yields at historic lows and inflation becoming a significant concern for investors, stabilised portfolios of SFR assets make a compelling investment case given their stable cash flows and inflation hedging ability. The investment thesis for this asset class is further strengthened by it's strong underlying fundamentals, higher rent and occupancy growth rates versus other sectors (e.g. commercial and retail) and arguably an ongoing structural shift towards renting versus owning due to affordability constraints for the younger generation in many markets.
i-BTL platforms, on the other hand, can unlock the institutional potential of a country's existing stockpile for investors as they acquire from a much larger market, which dwarfs the fraction of sites available to BTR developers to build on. That said, it is important that when an i-buyer platform is being developed and set up in a country it is done correctly with the right technology, data feeds, and management expertise needed to run an i-buyer strategy. This is because i-BTl vs BTR requires a very different approach to asset and property management, given the assets that are being managed are spread out and not concentrated over a few sites. It would be, all but, impossible to run an i-buyer strategy in a traditional way without the aid of technology.
Should investors elect to build exposure to a country's residential sector through the i-BTL channel vs BTR (or to supplement their new build exposure), investors will be able to receive; i) income producing portfolios in a fraction of the time (Months vs Years), ii) tailor made portfolios for different risk reward appetites, iii) a more diversified portfolio (by both housing and tenant type), iv) a portfolio with less concentration risk, and v) a portfolio that has been built to target alpha specifically, and as such has in it only properties which are likely to outperform the market. The aforementioned is not possible with BTR due to the number of potential development sites in a country being much smaller than the number of homes (meaning liquidity is an issue) and the time horizons associated with building properties vs simply buying and renovating (Years vs Months).
At TSC, we can do the above while also targeting our investors' alpha. We do this by leveraging a mixture of feature analysis, relative value analysis, and machine learning to identify properties that look likely to outperform the market. The investment management team will then use a mixture of clustering and optimisation algorithms to tailor each investor's portfolio. This ensures the assets being acquired are best suited to match any bespoke preferences and or requirements e.g. income/capital tilts, risk/reward tolerance, ESG mandates, refurb alpha etc.
Additionally, when investors elect to include a co-ownership or right to own scheme for a portion of the properties in their portfolios (whereby tenants jointly own the property with the investor or after several years are allowed to purchase their rental property in full at a fixed price) not only can investors reduce their portfolio risk, but they will be continually injecting modernised, refurbished and environmentally friendly homes back into that country's sector. This also helps aspiring homeowners feel more at home in their rental homes, knowing they can own them one day.
While right to own schemes are possible for BTR properties too, given the homogeneity of most BTR products being developed (often made like this on purpose to reduce costs) BTR properties are often seen as more transitory. Also it has been shown that when tenants have the possibility of buying their rental home, they normally look after them better, in turn reducing opex costs, turnover and voids.
Our Summits:
TSC AIM:
primary focus is on real assets, however this does not restrict its investment universe. Through a mixture of top-down and bottom-up strategies, AIM invests across a wide spectrum of asset classes, considering both traditional and alternative investments for clients. To best serve clients’ capital needs, Twin Summits AIM offers both funds and non-collateralised investment structures in which to invest. This allows us to react quickly to the changing market, and execute point in time investments with a selected number of investors.
TSC iLAB:
develops new technologies and platforms to enable AIM to operate efficiently across the value chain for live strategies. iLAB also supports AIM and a selected number of Twin Summits' partners/ investors by undertaking research mandates in areas where they require more exposure; e.g. new areas for insurance and pension firms to deploy capital, such as insuretech opportunities, an industry Twin Summits staff have experience working in.