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Beyond the façade: Real Estate Debt
While some construction projects seek to preserve the façade and replace the interior, the opposite can also be possible: preserving a building while replacing the façade. And this approach can create compelling investment opportunities.
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PM Corner: Infrastructure debt in a sweet spot for 2024
Private infrastructure had a challenging 2023. After a record fundraising year in 2022, we reported in our Infrastructure Outlook 2024 overall funds raised in 2023 fell by over 50%.
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Infrastructure debt in a sweet spot for 2024
Attractive risk-adjusted returns during uncertain times
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Video
10 Minute Masterclass—Global Infrastructure Debt
Infrastructure debt continues to grow in its appeal to investors, partly due to the range of potential benefits on offer—from an illiquidity premium over public markets to enhanced diversification, risk protection and asset-liability matching characteristics. The essential nature of infrastructure debt further strengthens its appeal throughout the ups and downs of the economic cycle.
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Webinar
Infrastructure Debt in 2024: watch the webinar
Where does the sweet spot for infrastructure debt in 2024 lie? Watch the webinar to find out
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Driving Sustainable Outcomes: Infrastructure Debt and the Sustainable Development Goals
Infrastructure investment is vital for enhancing quality of life, driving economic development and promoting social equity. It fundamentally shapes how we live, how economies function and the inclusivity and resilience of our communities and environment. To meet global infrastructure needs, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, an estimated $97 trillion in investment is needed by 2040.
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Mind the (economic) gap: Infrastructure Debt 2024 Report
Nuveen’s Don Dimitrievich was recently featured in Infrastructure Investor’s 2024 Infrastructure Debt Report and shared his insights on how the Energy Infrastructure Credit team is providing flexible capital solutions and finding opportunities in the gaps in today’s high cost of capital environment.
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Infrastructure Investor: Flight to quality over quantity
“Diversification is key as global and macroeconomic trends continue to boost returns across the infrastructure debt market.”
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Webinar
Global Debt Funding Gap Webcast: “Everything is Relative”
Our recent webcast “Everything is Relative” brings together AEW’s research heads from around the world to explore the global debt funding gap. The team look to explore the scale of the debt funding gap globally, and how this compares across regions. They also examine when the refinancing problems could ease.
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The inherent stability of European real estate lending
In today’s current investment landscape, I have witnessed first hand how real estate lending has emerged as a stabilising force, offering investors a safe haven from the volatility of public markets. At Arrow Lending Opportunities, we’ve honed our focus on this private debt investment strategy, particularly within the European real estate credit sector, and I’m keen to share insights into its increasing appeal.
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Commercial Real Estate: The Lure of Late-Cycle Lending
Investors who paint commercial real estate with a broad brush may be missing out, particularly at this point in the cycle.
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Putting recent commercial real estate debt headlines into perspective
New York Community Bank (NYCB) posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss as it built reserves for commercial real estate (CRE) debt losses, and it cut its dividend by more than 70%, resulting in the greatest-ever-day-over-day decline for the stock (–38%).
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Podcast
Real Estate Debt: Why Now?
While commercial real estate markets continue to face cyclical and structural headwinds, real estate debt may prove to be a bright spot for investors in 2024—benefiting from attractive valuations and increased institutional take-up of the asset class. Nasir Alamgir explains.
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The case for infrastructure debt
In today’s quickly evolving global economy, many institutional investors have turned to infrastructure debt for potential benefits ranging from an illiquidity premium over public markets to asset-liability matching characteristics.
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How sustainability fits into commercial real estate debt
With over 70% of surveyed institutional investors now considering or planning to consider climate risk and the environmental and societal impact of their investment decisions, it is becoming increasingly obvious that investment products should offer sustainable qualities in order to meet this growing demand. As a result of this trend, this paper looks at how commercial real estate (CRE) debt could be a popular choice.
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Stress testing the foundations: Analyzing the vulnerability of US banks to falling commercial real estate values
The commercial real estate sector’s continued challenges could potentially impact US banks. Franklin Templeton Fixed Income’s Shawn Lyons discusses the ongoing commercial real estate crisis and how US banks are safeguarding themselves against these issues.
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Relative value in real assets: Q2 2023
Our real assets research team drill into proprietary data to compare risk and return across sectors, drawing out those showing most relative value.
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Eurozone commercial real estate reset creates opportunities for debt investors
The sharp rise in interest rates over the last year has lowered valuations and led buyers to demand higher yields when acquiring commercial property. Banks have increased their scrutiny and caution, reducing loan-to-value funding ratios. While there is still demand from borrowers, especially for refinancing maturing debt, the amount of debt offered by banks per square metre is lower. We believe this environment presents an attractive opportunity for investors.
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Deals delayed and crowded trades…. but can investors still find value in infrastructure debt
Private infrastructure debt still offers a broad spectrum of opportunities, but investors face complex challenges. In this Q&A, our infrastructure debt team contemplate the current state of the market and where it goes from here.
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Podcast
Infrastructure Debt: The Growing Attraction
Orhan Sarayli, Head of North America on Barings’ Global Infrastructure Debt team joins the podcast to discuss the evolving opportunity set in infrastructure debt, including who is buying the asset class today, and what trends may underpin its growth in the years to come.