All ESG articles
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White papers2025 Global Listed Infrastructure Annual Outlook
Five reasons to buy GLI in 2025. As we turn the page to a new year, the long-term risk and return profile of GLI continues to support its inclusion in portfolios. Read our full 2025 outlook.
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White papersHow data center developers are powering AI
Demand for power has never been higher—nor supply more constrained. Here’s how data center developers are getting the watts they need.
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White papersPrivate Infrastructure: 2025 Outlook
We expect record levels of activity for both private infrastructure equity and debt investors in 2025, primarily focused on the following key themes: surging demand for AI, higher focus in regional energy security and continuance of the energy transition. Get an in-depth look, including sector outlooks for Energy, Power, Digital, Transport, and Social Infrastructure.
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White papersPRI Assessment results for 2024 released
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have released the 2024 assessment results. This annual assessment measures PRI signatories’ commitment to implementing the six Principles of Responsible Investment in their investment practices and disclosures. These principles aim to promote the integration of ESG considerations into investment decision making, increase accountability and transparent disclosures, and encourage the broader implementation of these principles by the broader investment industry.
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White papersThematic Engagement: 2024 Scope 3 Emissions
Scope 3 emissions are becoming increasingly important as issuers face growing pressure to report and reduce these emissions. In our latest report, we examine how issuers across public fixed-income and private credit sectors are tackling Scope 3 data challenges and setting decarbonization targets.
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White papersEasier financial conditions lift expectations of a recovery in commercial real estate
The outlook for the commercial real estate market has improved in 2024. Economic growth ticked up in early 2024 and although projections have been adjusted downwards during the second half of the year, the faster than expected reduction in inflation has had a positive effect on investor interest. Global central banks began to unwind their monetary policy tightening, beginning with the ECB in June, the Bank of England in August, and the US Federal Reserve in September.
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White papersPitfalls & Mitigants of Climate Assessment Software
Physical climate risk incorporates two broad hazard categorizations: acute and chronic. Climate risk software and analysis tools typically forecast each hazard individually and across multiple timeframes and scenarios.
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White papersCOP29: Show Me the Money!
Islands of agreement cannot disguise a rising sea of disappointment, piling pressure on COP30 to restore a spirit of multilateralism.
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White papers40 years of lending lessons
From navigating market crashes to embracing ESG and technology, Adrian Poole and Gregor Bamert reveal how 40 years of real estate debt investing have moulded Aviva Investors’ strategy – and what it takes to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market.
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WebinarWebinar replay: The concrete fundamentals of light industrial
Register to watch the webinar replay of Nuveen Real Estate’s Global Head of Industrial, Gray Bouchillon, and Managing Director, Real Estate Specialist, Sayuri Khandavilli for an in-depth discussion on the evolving dynamics of industrial real estate and the opportunities on the horizon. This session delves into key factors shaping the sector including the rapid growth of e-commerce, the impact of dwindling light industrial supply, the increasing significance of re-shoring and near shoring initiatives and how to effectively leverage current market distress.
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White papersTransition to a low carbon economy powers growth
Awareness and expectations surrounding sustainability and the need to transition to a low carbon economic model are maturing globally, driving demand and creating new investment opportunities.
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White papersNot all net zero pathways are created equal: Pivotal questions for investors to ask
Improving real estate’s sustainability profile is pivotal to addressing climate change, as the sector contributes some 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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White papersHow does an aging population impact real estate?
Globally, life expectancy is increasing, creating a growing demographic of senior citizens (those aged 65 and over). At the same time, working age populations (those aged between 15 and 64) are stalling in some countries, and even expected to decrease.
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White papersProving resilience and durability
As a top-performing asset class for about a century, farmland has proven time and again to have upside growth potential and to be resilient throughout various economic scenarios. It is an essential global property sector tied to food production. Jim McCandless and Daniel Murray, co-CIOs for farmland at UBS Asset Management, discuss why more investors are looking to add farmland into their investment portfolios.
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White papersAddressing climate impacts and nature loss through real assets
The effects of climate change are a megatrend on a global scale, influencing the expected risk-return profile of real assets investments and the opportunity set for investors. The increasing frequency and severity of physical climate hazards, as well as nature loss resulting from changing ecosystems requires new ways of thinking about financial risk and return in real assets investments.
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White papersEuropean life sciences real estate
It’s darkest before dawn in European real estate markets
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White papersTransforming urbanization
Urbanization promises greater prosperity for an increasing share of the world’s population. And yet it historically is associated with widened income inequality and degrading the natural environment.
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Asset Manager NewsHIH Invest Acquires Logistics Asset in Sittensen for Open-Ended Institutional Fund
Fully occupied core property with a total lettable area of nearly 24,000 square metres Property developed by Panattoni Completed in March 2023 Aimed for DGNB “Gold” certification
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White papersGenerating alpha returns in energy infrastructure
Actis invests globally in critical, sustainable infrastructure, not only because we view it as our mission to transform infrastructure for a better tomorrow but, above all, because we know that our investment approach, and experience investing in critical infrastructure in more than 35 countries over the last 20 years, delivers competitive, alpha returns.
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White papersFinding the right blend: Optimising asset allocation in liquidity pools
In the second part of our new article series on liquidity optimisation, Alastair Sewell investigates how investors can find the right mix of assets for their liquidity pools.
