All Debt Markets articles – Page 6
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2020 versus 2008: What’s changed for European infrastructure debt?
Infrastructure debt is not immune to a severe economic downturn, but the global financial crisis has left the asset class stronger. We explain why.
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Real assets can offer an income alternative to low bond yields
When it comes to seeking investment income, market participants typically turn to bonds. But alternative sources of income are becoming increasingly important as more investors discover that debt just doesn’t yield enough to meet their portfolio distrubtion needs now. In working with clients around the world, we’re seeing private real assets play a bigger role in generating robust investment income that’s built to last.
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2020-Q1 Brazil Market Commentary
The stars were seemingly aligned for Brazil’s economy entering 2020, but the outbreak of COVID-19 changed that in a matter of weeks. While the full impact has yet to be realized as Brazil’s outbreak began later than other countries and is currently still expanding, it is already clear that Latin America’s largest economy will see a sharp slowdown in growth during 2020 and unprecedent levels of unemployment.
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2020-Q1 US Market Commentary
COVID-19 and the policies used to quell its spread have forced many economies around the globe into a recession. This weakness inevitably flowed through to housing data, but there are some early indications that the market is in better shape than many feared.
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COVID-19: Caution is the playbook halfway through the year
More than half-way through what has been an unprecedented and eventful year, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the world economy. It is certainly fair to say that the COVID-19 pandemic is an exogenous shock most forecasters would have struggled to foresee and qualifies as a classic “black swan” event with a very long fat left tail.
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Talking Points – Infrastructure debt in a COVID-19 world, June 2020
When will infrastructure companies be able to get back to “normal”?
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Real assets and the quest for resilient income
COVID-19 has made life harder for already yield-starved investors, and each asset class faces its own challenges. We draw on the latest thinking from our Real Assets House View and research team to highlight where reliable income sources can still be found in real asset markets.
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Real Estate: The Critical Role of Asset Management in a Crisis
Asset management is vital to long-term value creation in real estate debt and equity markets—particularly when it comes to navigating crises like COVID-19.
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AEW Research Flash Report - June 2020
In this fifth update since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we define a new base case scenario by being more precise about our cash shortfall and yield widening assumptions for individual markets and quantify both short and long-term return implications across more individual markets.
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COVID-19: The re-opening gathers pace
Across the world, economies are re-opening in the aftermath of what is likely to be the deepest recession since World War II. Countries are relaxing social distancing measures in support of economic recovery but still focused on keeping hard-fought infection levels down.
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European Outlook - May 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has quickly translated into a severe shock for the global economy and real estate markets. Near-term indicators of performance have turned sharply downward, and the situation is fast-moving.
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COVID-19: Is there still a premium for illiquidity?
One of the immediate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a marked reduction in investors’ risk appetite. But will their appetite for the illiquidity premium in private markets also disappear? Laurence Monnier explores.
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AEW Research Flash Report - May 2020
In this fourth update since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, we update and combine some of our initial thoughts about the impact of the lockdowns and expected restrictions going forward.
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Commercial Mortgage Loans: An Alternative Asset in LDI Portfolios?
Most public and private defined benefit pension plan sponsors aim to design an effective liability driven investment (LDI) strategy that balances several objectives – achieving the desired funded status for the plan, managing return-seeking assets in the portfolio against relevant benchmarks, and effectively de-risking and hedging future liabilities. LDI portfolios traditionally rely on a combination of Treasury securities and long and medium duration corporate bonds as hedging instruments.
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AEW Research Flash Report - May 2020
To learn more about the immediate impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Asia Pacific real estate property markets, we invite you to read a brief update by Asia Pacific’s Director of Research, Glyn Nelson. This report will be distributed intermittently over the following months as the COVID-19 situation evolves and we monitor its impact, real or potential.
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COVID-19: Damage assessment starts to take shape
Data from the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is beginning to form a picture, and it’s an ugly one. Growth across the U.S. and Eurozone contracted more than expected in the first quarter of 2020 with the expectation that the very worst of the data will be revealed in the second quarter. Batten down the hatches for a set of what is most likely to be historically bad data in the coming months.
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Empty Malls and Conference Calls
The COVID-19 crisis has been tough on REITs in general—but some sectors have been resilient, and may offer a glimpse into the future of the asset class.
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Economic and Real Estate Outlook in Context of Covid-19 #4
The global economy is slowly preparing to move out of phase 1 (lockdown) towards staggered re opening of key businesses with an emphasis on social distancing measures. The extent of damage to the economy will continue to be tabulated in the coming weeks, but the estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis is real U.S. GDP decreased a whopping 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 following a 2.1 percent increase in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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Special bulletin #6: Economic and real estate outlook in the context of COVID-19
As of mid-April, the extent of the full devastation being wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic across the global economy is becoming evident. The global economy is expected to see the greatest contraction in growth since the Great Depression with the IMF indicating that cumulative loss in global GDP this year and next could be approximately 6.1% for developed economies or about $9 trillion –an amount larger than the economies of Japan and Germany combined. Even factoring in the IMF’s forecast for a sharp rebound in 2021, the world economy will still be 5% off pre-pandemic levels, indicating the depth of this recession.
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PGIM’s real estate businesses complete over $35B in transactions worldwide in 2019
The real estate businesses of PGIM completed over $35 billion in transactions worldwide in 2019. The volume represents a total of 954 transactions and includes $14.8 billion in real estate equity investments and dispositions on behalf of third-party investors, in addition to a record $20.5 billion in real estate financing. PGIM is the $1.3 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.