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White papersTwo Investable Themes in China
The China A-Share market presents a compelling opportunity for quality growth managers, with note two investible themes: a growing middle class and healthcare spending growth.
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White papersModern Slavery, Exploitation and the Issues with Low Cost Sourcing
What is Modern Slavery?
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Asset Manager News
Post Brexit: German commercial and residential real estate expected to mark a return to rising sales
Germany’s real estate markets are showing renewed strength, despite the reality of Brexit and the start of a long and difficult period of negotiation for the UK’s exit from the European Union. While it remains to be seen whether Germany, as Europe’s most stable real estate market, might actually benefit from the situation, the country’s property market generally appears to be on the up.
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Tsunami of Capital Targeting European Real Estate Carries Liquidity Warning
By Richard Croft, CEO of M7 Real Estate: As a tsunami of capital inundates Europe’s real estate markets there is a danger of being swept up by talk that ‘now is a great time to be buying real estate.’ If only it were that simple.
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Asset Manager NewsBouwinvest Invests in 186-Room Hotel in Provast Amsterdam Tower Development
Bouwinvest has acquired a 186-room hotel over the six lower floors of the 100-metre high Amstel Tower, being developed by local firm Provast, in the business district adjacent to Amsterdam’s Amstel railway station to the southeast of the city’s centre.
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Asia-Pacific property investing – challenges and opportunities
Despite negative headlines about the health of several Asia-Pacific economies (most notably China) and the yields on core properties falling below historical averages in most major markets, we still see attractive investment opportunities in the region, albeit through a more targeted approach.
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Perspectives: The impact of QE on European property markets
The European Central Bank plans to inject €1.1 trillion into the eurozone economy through its new quantitative easing programme from March 2015 to September 2016. In this paper, we look at what QE is likely to mean for the region’s real estate market.
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Webcast: The Global Private Finance Opportunity
As investors continue to hunt for yield in this historically low interest rate environment, global private credit markets offer a potential solution for achieving both attractive returns and diversification.
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Insights: Q1 2015
In Asia, active management is becoming an increasingly important driver of outperformance, against a backdrop of moderately positive rental growth and relatively low yields. Attractively priced prime assets aren’t as easy to find as they were a year or two ago.
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Colin Humphries joins UBS as new Assistant Portfolio Manager for UK debt fund
Colin Humphries has been appointed as Assistant Portfolio Manager for the UBS Participating Mortgage Real Estate Fund (UBS-PREMF), joining UBS’s UK real estate debt business in London.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Wind
The boom in the German onshore wind market is unwavering. The rate of construction of wind power plants has increased by more than 50 % in 2014 with a newly installed capacity of around 4.75 GW (including repowering) compared to the previous year.
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White papersOutlook 1H15: UK commercial real estate market - Will 2015 be a year of two halves?
Economic data from the end of 2014 continued the pattern of softer growth recorded since the summer, with 4Q14 GDP growth of 0.5% the slowest for a year. Nonetheless, this left growth for 2014 as a whole at a robust 2.6% and the fastest of the G7 nations, and given some reasonably strong high frequency data in 4Q, it is likely the final figures may be revised up in the future.
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Asset Manager News
M7-Starwood Capital Group Joint Venture Acquires 17 Dutch and German Light Industrial Properties for €74.5M
MStar Europe, the joint venture set up by M7 Real Estate and Starwood Capital Group’s Starwood Global Opportunity Fund X (SOF X) to invest in high-yielding, multi-let assets in Continental Europe, has agreed to acquire or has completed the purchase of 17 properties in Germany and the Netherlands.
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Real estate market outlook - UK
The UK was the fastest growing member of the G7 group of major advanced economies in 2014, outpacing even the US. For two full years now, real GDP has been rising at a quarterly rate in excess of 0.5%, and the economy seems to have moved back on to a sustainable path of robust growth.
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Investment case: The UK private rented sector (PRS)
The UK private rented sector (PRS) has doubled in size in the past decade and is now starting to increasingly attract the attention of institutional investors.
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Opportunities in Asia: Japan's residential sector
Japan boasts the biggest real estate market in Asia, offering investors maturity, transparency and low volatility of returns. That, coupled with a recovering economy, has fuelled investor interest.
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Asset Manager News
M&G Real Estate boosts Asia property portfolio with acquisitions in Japan
M&G Real Estate has acquired 12 residential properties and an office building in Japan as part of its strategy to improve long-term income and add diversification to its core Asia real estate portfolio.
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Investment case: Asia Pacific core real estate
The Asia Pacific (APAC) real estate market has grown into the largest in the world, offering increasingly high levels of maturity, transparency and liquidity.
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UK house prices: how serious is the risk of overheating?
The UK housing market has rebounded over the past 18 months, earning strong returns for investors but also prompting some commentators to express concerns about the risk of overheating.
