All Europe articles – Page 53
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Sharpe Thinking: seeking quality assets amid the market sell-off
What’s moving the investment landscape? In these turbulent markets, we bring you views from our portfolio managers, analysts and economists, delivered by our Investment Office – an independent body ensuring that our investment teams perform in the best interest of clients.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q4 2019
The UK economy flatlined in the final quarter of 2019 as declines in manufacturing sector output offset positive growth from the construction and services sector. Relative to the same quarter a year ago, economic output grew by 1.1%, which represents the weakest annual growth rate since mid-2012. However, a post election bounce back in business confidence should provide some upside to economic activity in the first half of 2020. The composite score on the IHS Markit/CIPS UK purchasing managers index (PMI) climbed to 53.3 in January from 49.3 in December.
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Corporate Hybrid Bonds for Insurance Investors
To overcome the low-yield problem, European insurers are eager to identify assets that offer the right balance between quality and return.
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GIAM Macro & Market Research - Market Commentary
Yesterday evening the ECB surprisingly launched its new QE program “to counter the serious risks to the monetary policy transmission mechanism and the outlook for the euro area posed by the outbreak and escalating diffusion of the coronavirus, COVID-19.” At the March 12 policy meeting President Lagarde made clear that the response to the crisis should be “fiscal first and foremost”. However, the dramatic developments since then – with specifically sovereign euro area bond spreads rising strongly – induced further ECB action.
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Outlook 2020: European commercial real estate
Parts of European commercial real estate look challenged in 2020, but opportunities can still be found, especially in “winning cities”.
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GLP to Acquire Goodman Group’s Central and Eastern Europe Logistics Portfolio
The addition of this portfolio will expand GLP’s European presence to 10 countries
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KGAL reaches Infrastructure milestone with closing of renewable energy fund in 2019
KGAL Infrastructure places largest renewable energy fund ESPF 4 with 750 million euros
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PATRIZIA opts to go green in France
As part of its sustainability drive, PATRIZIA AG has switched over to renewable energy sources in France.
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Southern European Logistics Real Estate Market - Dynamics and Catch-Up Effects
In Part 1, the relationships within the logistics sector were explained on an aggregated level. The expansion of logistics services and applicable fields was traced back to the relevant drivers and their respective characteristics in this context. This approach has shown that fundamental developments accompany the growth of the sector and that additional impulses are generated by intensifying interactions.
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European real estate with a higher aim: social infrastructure
Sustainability and social issues are an increasing priority for investors and public institutions alike. Within real estate these topics are particularly salient, running through the design and development of cities and how they can foster more inclusive, safer and greener communities. Identifying ‘social infrastructure’ as an asset class can contribute to these aims. By bringing impact-focused private capital to the social infrastructure space, the community and environmental performance of real estate assets can be markedly improved.
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When The View Is Getting Blurry, Stick To Main Convictions
Market reaction: The further spreading of the coronavirus, especially in Europe, has, in the past few days, triggered a selloff in risk assets and high demand for safe assets (US dollar, Treasuries and gold). As markets reassess the spillover effects of the virus into the economy, volatility is likely to persist.
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Personal Values, Responsible Investing And Stock Allocation
We analyze the portfolio choices of approximately 965,500 active participants in employee saving plans in France. Looking at the cross-section of equity exposure, we find that the inclusion of responsible equity options in the menu of available funds is associated with a 2.4% higher equity allocation by plan participants.
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Part 1: European Logistics Real Estate Market - From a niche to an institutional asset class
The logistics sector is of central importance to the processes of our modern economies. As an elementary component for further development, it is itself committed to technological, economic and social change and must, therefore, react dynamically to changing requirements.
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February 2020 - European loan market - review and outlook
European loans returned 5.0% in euro terms in 2019, making another strong year and the asset class’s best performance in 2016. In tandem with wider markets, the year was not without its wobbles, most markedly in October, but all quarters delivered positive returns and loans found their footing in the fourth quarter, as economic and political concerns dissipated and as progress towards a US-China trade deals was made, just as a decisive result in the UK elections inspired confidence in a clearer position on Brexit.
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Are CLOs Unfairly Vilified?
Despite the late-cycle environment, we believe the recent negative headlines on CLOs are somewhat overstated, and do little justice to the many benefits of the asset class—which has delivered impressive risk-adjusted returns and low defaults over time.
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What can we expect from CEE4’s recent data?
We do not have yet the details regarding GDP components but looking at hard data gives us some insights. In Czech, for instance, we assume that the main driver of growth in Q4 has been private consumption as retail sales, industrial production and services remained positive while the manufacturing sector shrank. Similarly, in Poland, while industrial production and retail sales were strong on the last quarter of 2019, construction sector collapsed.
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PATRIZIA with strong momentum in client business 2019
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, recorded an operating income of EUR 134.5m in 2019, exceeding the FY 2019 guidance of EUR 120.0 to 130.0m. This compares to an operating income of EUR 141.4m in FY 2018, which contained significant revenue contribution from phase-out sale of principal investments and co- investment income. Excluding the sale of principal investments and co-investment income operating income increased 10.3%.
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Life after LIBOR: Two Years and Counting
An update on what regulators, markets and Neuberger Berman have been doing to prepare for the transition from LIBOR.
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Blog: The Paris climate targets require investors to act
On the subject of achieving the Paris climate targets, Jane Ambachtsheer, Head of Sustainability at BNP Paribas Asset Management, is forthright. She says the world will not hit the mark of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius if we wait for governments to act. That judgment helps explain BNPP AM’s drive to ensure that investments contribute to attaining the climate goals.