Reporting 2021

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2021

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Key
figures

Real Estate Assets under Management

18.7

CHF billion Real estate assets under management (incl. Swiss Prime Site Solutions and Akara) at the end of 2021: CHF 16.4 bn

Profit

507

CHF million Profit

Climate neutrality

2040

Climate neutrality target

employees

1474

Number of employees (FTE)

women on Executive Board

17

Percentage of women on the Executive Board

Green Bonds

600

CHF million Outstanding green bonds on the SIX Swiss Exchange

women on Board of Directors

43

Percentage of women on the Board of Directors

Distribution

3.35

CHF Distribution 2021 per share

SPACE REQUIREMENTS

95

Percent of the tenants want to maintain or expand space size

Business

Ton Büchner
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dear Shareholders

W e have all been living in extraordinary times for nearly two years now. Although we have gradually got used to the circumstances around us and learned to live with them, the pandemic has had a significant impact on all of us. Despite that, there were some encouraging signs from the economy and society in 2021. Over the last twelve months, the Swiss Prime Site Group has been successful in the market, achieving key strategic and operational milestones and reaching its objectives. With a profit of CHF 507.4 million, equivalent to CHF 6.68 per share, we have achieved very strong results. The Board of Directors will therefore propose a distribution of CHF 3.35 to the 2022 Annual General Meeting.

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left: René Zahnd, CEO Swiss Prime Site
right: Marcel Kucher, CFO Swiss Prime Site

«Our customers want first-class locations and spatial flexibility.»

René Zahnd (CEO) and Marcel Kucher (CFO) look back on an eventful 2021 financial year. Despite numerous challenges, positive results were generated and many milestones reached.

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Strong results in 2021

Swiss Prime Site performed strongly in the 2021 financial year and surpassed its own targets significantly. Both segments and all of the group companies contributed to this pleasing result. The fact that these results were achieved in spite of a lockdown lasting several months makes them all the more impressive. On a strategic and financial level, Swiss Prime Site has taken important steps to become even better equipped, more agile and more flexible in dealing with future challenges.

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At a glance

The real estate investment platform

We are the leading partner for investors who wish to invest – or who already invest – both indirectly and directly in the real estate market. Swiss Prime Site thus covers the entire investor spectrum from private through to institutional investors. The product range includes funds (open-ended and closed-ended), mandates, investment foundations, straight bonds and the Swiss Prime Site share.

Ratings and benchmarks

Swiss Prime Site is evaluated by the following leading ratings providers. The rating agency Moody’s assigns an A3 long-term issuer rating to Swiss Prime Site with a stable outlook. The rating received confirms the strong creditworthiness and strategic orientation of the Swiss Prime Site Group. GRESB evaluates the sustainability of global real estate investments. In the 2021 assessment, the property portfolio of Swiss Prime Site Immobilien received the «Green Star» award. The 2021 ratings issued for Swiss Prime Site by the ESG ratings providers Inrate, ISS ESG, MSCI and Sustainalytics either remained the same or improved.

Success story

Swiss Prime Site was founded in 1999. The Company is the largest listed real estate company in Switzerland and has a property portfolio valued at CHF 12.8 billion. Including Swiss Prime Site Solutions and Akara, the real estate assets under management are worth approximately CHF 19 billion.

Property portfolio

Swiss Prime Site Immobilien is a real estate investment company focusing on the Swiss market. As at the end of 2021, the portfolio had a total value of CHF 12.8 billion. It consists of high-quality properties in prime locations, mainly occupied by commercial tenants.

Stories that move us

As the leading real estate company, we create added value and sustainable living spaces, innovatively and passionately. Our real estate investments and products set high standards and we constantly strive to create added value for our stakeholders. We are steadfastly committed to sustainability and accept responsibility for our actions, our environment and the society.

The healthy building

Health-consciousness, which has been increasing over recent years, has been greatly heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is placing new demands on real estate. After all, in Switzerland people now spend up to 21 hours a day indoors. It is important to take this multi-layered change in requirements on board.

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Climate-neutral property portfolio

Humans have exceeded the limits of what the planet can cope with in a number of areas. Climate change – and the accompanying call for decarbonisation – is one of the greatest global challenges of our time. The responsibility of states, corporations and every single person, employee and consumer is complex and wide-ranging. The situation demands a new, cross-generational awareness and engenders a sense of global unity.

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«Satisfied customers will help us achieve our goals.»

In Schlieren, on the site of a former printing area just outside the city of Zurich, Swiss Prime Site developed a location that brings together innovation, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. «JED» skilfully combines historic industrial character with the atmosphere of a modern workplace, creating interesting spaces for tenants, visitors and the local population. Project Manager Gianfranco Basso has helped to develop and design JED and continues to shape the project today.

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«I wouldn’t say a rocky road, but it definitely called for perseverance.»

Swiss Prime Site Solutions, which has been approved as a fund manager by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), launched its first real estate fund on 1 November 2021. Maximilian Hoffmann, CIO Swiss Prime Site Solutions Investment Fund Commercial, explains the key aspects and goals of the new area of business.

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Space as a service!

The digitalisation of society and the accompanying need for flexible solutions to ensure convenient and modern day-to-day working is having a considerable influence on the real estate market. Property developers are trying to respond successfully to this growing need for flexibility and high levels of service.

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Logistics real estate? It’s logical, really.

The real estate industry has been catering to the growing demand for logistics properties for some time now. This trend has been further accelerated by greater mobility and general digitalisation in society. But it was not until the start of the current decade that a real gold fever began to emerge in the market, further heightened by the pandemic.

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«We are like gear wheels in a machine that work together»

Andrea Schaller and Macarena Concha work for Swiss Prime Site Solutions. As Communications Manager and Head of Construction respectively, they carry a lot of responsibility and are passionate in pursuing their goals. In the following interview, they talk about how they tackle their work in a lockdown and flourish within their team, and how they balance their professional and private lives.

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