Infrastructure research – Page 6
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White papersThe Inflation Inflection
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the range of policies aimed at mitigating its impact, has triggered a return to levels of inflation unseen for 40 years. While inflation is likely to moderate from these very high levels during 2022, we believe it will settle and persist at a rate higher than we have become used to over recent cycles.
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White papersSupply Change: How logistics is racing to meet demand
Core industrial property prices have never been as elevated as they are now, so selecting assets for which occupiers will pay higher rents is increasingly crucial to investment performance, argues UBS Asset Management’s Brice Hoffer.
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White papersDisruptive tech – Far-reaching changes that have further to go
The extensive changes in how we work, consume and communicate over the last few years have augmented disruption from information technology. This is propelling advances in, for example, cloud computing, the internet of things, content streaming and artificial intelligence.
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White papersInvesting in the New Global Infrastructure Economy
In a recent interview in the Preqin Global Infrastructure 2022 report, Biff Ourso and Andy Deihl of Nuveen Infrastructure discuss how changing global demographics and structural trends are creating opportunities for private infrastructure to invest in the transition to a low carbon economy.
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White papersInfrastructure: a direct route to impact investing
Interview with Gilles Lengaigne, Head of Origination & Corporate Development at Generali Global Infrastructure – part of the Generali Investments’ platform
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White papersInfrastructure debt: The future is green
Sustainability and the energy transition have certainly remained at the forefront of government and public agendas, despite the pandemic. This is particularly true in Europe. It is also true that we’re seeing an increasing emphasis on ESG from institutional investors.
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White papersEuropean cities: The Unsung Heroes of Grenoble, Wiesbaden and Coventry
The property world loves to rank cities, it’s a powerful method to condense the complexities of cities into a single metric. The usual ways of doing that come with a flaw, all too often absolute variables are used with the predictable result that the biggest cities lead the pack.
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White papersInfrastructure debt – Opportunities in the post-COVID recovery
As the global economy recovers from the COVID pandemic, companies and governments are re-thinking how economies operate and focusing on rebuilding in a more sustainable way. Recovery efforts are being supported by ambitious government spending plans that focus strongly on infrastructure.
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White papersInfrastructure’s mid-market: well-positioned for the post-pandemic recovery?
In their quest for dependable, long-term income, investors have increased allocations to infrastructure assets. This has fuelled competition for large-sized deals. By contrast, the mid-market remains less crowded and, at the same time, the number of opportunities continues to grow.
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White papersRating game: Getting the measure of infrastructure equity risk
Unlike liquid markets and real estate, a lack of publicly available data has made assessing risk more challenging for infrastructure equity assets.
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White papersThe Decisive Eye - Are Real Estate Investors Already Invested in Infrastructure?
Investors have increasingly embraced real assets to help meet some of these very significant investment challenges given their ability to deliver income-enhanced portfolio diversification.
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White papersWhy investors should focus on the Asian opportunity for sustainable data centres
The world’s appetite for data – and with it the demand for centres which house the infrastructure to process it – has increased exponentially in recent years, and shows every sign of accelerating even further. Drivers such as Industry 4.0, business migration to the cloud, the rise of 5G and the opportunities offered by the Internet of Things mean data will play a growing role in all our lives.
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White papersExcuse me, while I kiss the sky
This paper is an introduction to the new world of European renewables investment – a sector able to deliver attractive levels of regular income and capital appreciation to asset owners. The market is at perhaps the most electrifying point for investors: mature and proven, competitive and able to replace conventional energy – and with societies demanding more change towards sustainable economies.
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White papersTurning talk into action: Our real assets pathway to net zero
Unconstrained delivery of buildings and Infrastructure has been a major contributor to the climate crisis and now presents catastrophic risks for our clients and society.
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White papersWiredScore: Tenants expect quality connectivity
In today’s digital business world, nothing is ever fast enough. From running e-commerce platforms and delivering online services, communicating with clients and colleagues, to using cloud apps to manage operations, the internet underpins most core business functions.
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White papersGlobal Data Centers: Getting Connected With a Niche Sector
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest economic shock in generations. Significant disruption across all segments of the economy has resulted in severe recessions globally.
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White papersIncorporating ESG analysis in infrastructure investing
With sustainability factors more prominent than ever in the path forward for equities, the importance of integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations when investing in real assets such as infrastructure should come as no surprise.
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White papersIs infrastructure key to a sustainable recovery?
Infrastructure investment is about financing the real economy, meaning few investments are better placed to deliver a sustainable future.
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White papersIndustrial: Ugly Duckling, or Swan?
While we can argue that very few industrial buildings would be considered to have the beauty and stature of a swan, we discuss why we believe that the industrial sector has found a permanent and ever-more welcomed home in real estate investment portfolios.
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White papersReal Assets Study 2020 - Navigating disruption: challenges and opportunities
Real assets have been in the eye of the storm during the coronavirus pandemic – but according to our study, the worlds of infrastructure, real estate and private debt, still retain their appeal, even if fundamental changes are affecting them.
