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Asset Manager NewsCharter Hall secures 50% of Southern Cross Towers, Melbourne
Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall or the Group) is pleased to announce the Charter Hall Prime Office Fund (CPOF or the Fund) has acquired 50 per cent of the landmark Southern Cross Towers precinct in the prestigious “Paris End” of Melbourne’s CBD, from Brookfield and Blackstone.
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Asset Manager News
Charter Hall’s sustainable finance activity jumps to $2.4 billion
Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall or the Group) is pleased to announce a further $1 billion in sustainability-linked loans, lifting total sustainable finance transactions across the Group to $2.4 billion, up from $1.4 billion at 31 December 2021.
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Podcast
The Accidental Plan Sponsor Podcast - S.2 EP.2: The Down Under Edition
Here’s what you need to know about Australia’s Retirement System: It’s really big. It’s government mandated. It’s privately run. It’s really sophisticated.
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Asset Manager News
Nuveen Real Estate’s Australian housing platform opens first assets
Nuveen Real Estate, one of the world’s largest real estate investment managers and a leading manager of housing investments globally, has announced the opening of the first project in its Australian housing platform.
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Blog
Part 2: Aligning portfolios with ESG values in Australia – an industry view
In Part 1 of our blog series highlighting the findings of our Australia Global Choice research paper, we focused on the performance of an index-based solution employing a rigorous, rules-based ESG-centric screening and exclusion process. Here, we show the impact of that process in more detail, again using the FTSE Australia 300 Choice index to illustrate.
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Blog
Part 1: Aligning portfolios with ESG values in Australia
Investors are increasingly looking for straightforward ways to align their investments with their personal views on environmental and societal issues. Our analysis, as examined in our paper on this topic, shows that combining ESG screens with a transparent, rules-based index construction methodology results in indexes that are close substitutes for the underlying indexes with which investors are most familiar.
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White papers
Paris-Aligned Indexes to Manage the Future
With the surge in commitments from governments and businesses around the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, climate change has become the leading ESG issue among money managers in asset-weighted terms. As a result, institutional investors are increasingly looking for tools to implement net-zero strategies in their portfolios.
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Research Report
Annual Report 2021
This year continued to challenge global economies and businesses, with the COVID-19 pandemic persisting as we closed out the year. Despite these challenges, Charter Hall Group generated record fund growth and equity inflows across the business, while maintaining a razor-sharp focus on our customers.
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White papers
European cities: The Unsung Heroes of Grenoble, Wiesbaden and Coventry
The property world loves to rank cities, it’s a powerful method to condense the complexities of cities into a single metric. The usual ways of doing that come with a flaw, all too often absolute variables are used with the predictable result that the biggest cities lead the pack.
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Asset Manager News
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate Enter into a US$575 Million JV to Extend Hyperscale Data Center Program into Australia
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – October 18, 2021 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company™, and PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment and financing arm of Prudential Financial’s global asset management business, today announced an agreement to establish a US$575 million joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership to develop and operate two xScale data centers in Sydney, Australia.
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White papers
Australia - a market awaiting a strong return
The covid-19 pandemic derailed a generation’s economic progress by sending the Australian economy into a technical recession in 2020. A renewed lockdown in New South Wales this year may produce another quarter of falling GDP.
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Asset Manager News
Natixis Investment Managers International Completes First Investment in an Australian Windfarm Refinancing for Asahi Life
Natixis Investment Managers International has invested in the refinancing of a 317MW wind farm in South Australia on behalf of Asahi Life. The A$610m financing of the wind farm has been operational since 2017, carries an initial maturity of 22 years but amortizes over its life, resulting in a weighted-average life of 9.8 years. Over that time, Asahi will receive a coupon around 2% over the Australian short-term lending rate (BBSW) tat steps up over the life of the loan. The loan has no public rating, but is internally rated investment-grade by Natixis IM’s internal credit methodology.
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Asset Manager News
Nuveen Real Estate announces practical completion of 183-185 Clarence Street, Sydney
Nuveen Real Estate, one of the world’s largest real estate investment managers, today announces the practical completion of Sydney’s latest prime office buildings, SubStation No.164 at 183-185 Clarence Street, on behalf of its Asia Pacific Cities strategy.
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White papers
Global Choice Index Series overview - FTSE Australia 300 Choice and FTSE Developed ex Australia Choice Indexes
The Global Choice framework allows investors to align their investment choices with their values by enabling them to invest in companies that are carefully screened for product- and conduct-related issues. Once the stock universe is screened for undesirable characteristics, the index is constructed transparently using market-capitalization weights.
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Asset Manager News
AEW Announces the Acquisition of 3 Assets in Australia and Japan
AEW Capital Management (“AEW”) has acquired Macquarie Innovation Centre for AUD 144 million and a portfolio of 2 multifamily assets in Japan for JPY 5 billion.
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White papers
Set to arrive - The rise of the Australian multifamily sector
Much awaited by investors and end-users, the Australian multifamily sector is poised to emerge, underpinned by compelling top-down fundamentals. The experiences of other markets offer many learning points and astute investors can navigate and succeed in this new asset class.
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Asset Manager News
Charter Hall Group - Half Year FY21 Results
Our half yearly financial reports provide a director’s summary and full financial statements for the fund.
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White papers
Australia: The enduring merit of education
The long-term appeal of an education in Australia remains strong, despite near-term concerns arising from Covid-19. High quality education, geographic proximity to some of the fastest growing middle income countries and relative affordability compared with other English-speaking markets are some of the reasons underpinning the structural resilience of the sector.
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Asset Manager News
Deka Immobilien acquires office tower in Australia
Deka Immobilien has exchanged contracts to secure a high quality office property in Melbourne, Australia, for a purchase price of around EUR 280 million. Dexus, a leading Australian real estate groups, is the seller of the real estate. The building will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund Deka-ImmobilienGlobal.
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