All Asia Pacific articles – Page 29
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Asia Pacific Real Estate Summary: Edition 1 2016
Macro conditions have generally stabilized across APAC relative to January’s low point, which was characterized by elevated financial market volatility, falling commodity prices and declining global trade which many regional markets depend on to support activity and jobs.
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Global Economic Overview: Spring 2016
The world economy stumbled in 2015, amid weak aggregate demand, falling commodity prices and increasing economic volatility in major countries. The world GDP grew by 3.1% vs. 3.4% in 2014.
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UK Economy Overview
The UK finished 2015 ahead of many developed economies with the economy growing by 2.2%pa. Going forward Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts close to the long-term average economic growth of 2.0% in 2016 and 2.2% in 2017.
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Global Real Estate Summary: Edition 1 2016
The global economy is relatively healthy, despite the fact that in most major economies domestic demand is expanding at a rate below its 10-year (or longer) average.
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Is the New GICS Sector Worth $100 Billion?
In a fitting time almost 25 years after the Kimco IPO kicked off the start of the modern REIT era, the Real Estate sector has matured enough to garner a home of its own.
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Basis Trade at Index Close (BTIC) Trading at Index Option Expirations
Most index options traders use index futures for hedging purposes.
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Automation and Real Estate – the rise of the machines
This paper considers the impact of computing and robotics advances on the workforce and how this will influence real estate markets.
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The Opportunity of REITs: Thinking Beyond Stocks and Bonds
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) add diversification and can reduce volatility in investment portfolios, complementing traditional assets while capturing the benefits unique to real estate.
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Now vs. the GFC
Comparisons between the turmoil in January and February versus the GFC in 2009 yield a number of observations.
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Perspective: Global Volatility, The Real Economy, and Real Estate
Bouts of financial market volatility likely to return
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Equity Controlled Volatility Strategy
Equity volatility – or the “fear factor” as popularised in fiction – recently came back to the forefront of market operators’ minds, the result of events such as the Greek crisis during 2015 and questions around China’s economic growth prospects and plunging oil prices earlier this year.
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'It's not quite 2007, but stay vigilant' by Richard Croft as published in Estates Gazette
Richard Croft talks on investment, learning from mistakes, ‘new normal’ and over-confident deals.
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Why should institutional investors consider global private equity real estate?
For many years, investor motivations for considering real estate have included its characteristic stable income, strong historical relative performance across multiple cycles, and potential diversification benefits when held with other asset classes in a portfolio.
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China’s property market in transition
As China transitions to a service-based economy, this paper looks at the potential implications for commercial real estate and identifies which areas of the market are likely to prosper as a result.
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China Real Estate Market: Taking stock and looking ahead
Long-term structural gains in property sector dynamics amid ongoing noise and idiosyncrasies
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M&G Real Estate names new Chief Executive for Asia business
M&G Real Estate is to appoint Chiang Ling Ng, subject to regulatory approval, as chief executive and chief investment officer to its Asia business.
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Global Real Estate Securities – 2015 Performance Review and 2016 Market Outlook
2015 was a challenging year for the broader markets overall as macro-economic and political events dominated news headlines causing lackluster investment performance across most asset classes around the world. The collapse in oil prices (-30.5%) played havoc on countries and currencies reliant on energy exports.
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Key risks for global real estate in 2016
Aided by extremely loose global monetary policy, capital values have experienced a strong recovery since the crisis. We believe this period of very strong capital growth has largely run its course and the window to capture significant yield compression is passing quickly, says Sandip Bhalsod.
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Finding Value in Asia-Pacific Real Estate in 2016
Data on Asia-Pacific’s economies and real estate markets continue to produce conflicting reads. This is in part due to the fundamental heterogeneity in economic structure, demographics, fiscal, and monetary policy across the region’s main economies.