Infrastructure research – Page 8
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White papersHines Celebrates Sustainability From The Ground Up With Eighth Report
(HOUSTON) – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the release of the firm’s eighth sustainability report. The comprehensive report, which can be viewed at hinessustainability.com/, provides a detailed review of Hines’ environmental, social and governance performance, compiled in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
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White papersPrivate wants, public needs
With society facing many urgent and complex challenges, deciding who is best-placed to deliver solutions has become an emotive and often political subject. We assess whether there is a better way to utilise the skills and resources of the public, private and third sectors for the greater good.
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White papersTechnical Characteristics of a HydroPower Plant
Understanding the mechanism of an efficient plant
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White papersRe-imagining partnerships in infrastructure finance
While the shape of the UK’s future relationship with its European neighbours is still unclear, the question of how to finance infrastructure fit for the 21st century is equally pressing, argues Darryl Murphy.
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White papersESG and real assets: A matter of balance
Assessing ESG risks within real asset investments is far from straightforward. Mark Versey and Stanley Kwong use five case studies to illustrate the balance of ESG risk factors that affects investment decision-making, beyond simply trying to be ‘green’.
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White papersThe Increasing Importance of Hydropower In an Investment Portfolio
Hydropower is one of the oldest and Mose established energy sources on the planet. Over 2,000 years ago the ancient Greeks began exercising the principle of using water to drive turbines, which generated energy for grinding grain.
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White papersSpotlight on addressing climate change
In 2018, a group of leading climate scientists warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5°C in a report published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It states that even half a degree beyond this temperature will have significant environmental consequences, such as increased risk of heatwaves, droughts, floods and food shortages.
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White papersFinancing the European energy transition
The global and European energy transition is steadily advancing, opening up attractive new avenues to institutional investors in various regions and asset classes. In order to fully partake in the investment opportunities that come with this fundamental shift in how the global energy grids work, it takes holistic strategies that address the entire value chain. Investors should take a closer look at new technologies, such as energy storage and transmission assets.
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White papersEurope Real Estate Market Outlook - March 2019
Economic growth softens, while macro tailwinds remain strong Emerging submarkets driven by new infrastructure offer bottom-up opportunities Defensive qualities of the residential sector creates attractive long-term potential
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White papersSocial Infrastructure: A dual return asset class
Social infrastructure projects, such as hospitals, schools and community centres, may be attractive assets for institutional investors seeking to make both a market rate of return and an impact return, which is the measurable improvement on environmental and community related aspects. However, this dual return focus requires managing the social and environmental impact of an in- vestment while also managing for market-rate financial returns.
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White papersA recap of 2018 | Perception, demographics, technology
Innovation covers a wide range of topics that shape views of future investing. We addressed some of these concepts in our 2018 Innovation Series. We recap on these papers in this annual summary.
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White papersPerspective: Renewable Energies - HY1, 2019
Chancellor Merkel spoke of a Herculean task when she confirmed plans for the country’s phaseout of the nuclear energy programme in 2011. At that time, the energy transition was already in full swing, supported by the Renewable Energy Sources Act. Nuclear energy will be a thing of the past in Germany by 2022.
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White papersInvesting in US energy infrastructure: Navigating the changing landscape
This paper is a deep dive into the complexities of the US energy sector, and will build on themes that we highlighted in our previous global energy transition paper. In the US, clean energy and fossil fuels both play an important role, which creates investment opportunities across a wide spectrum of energy infrastructure.
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White papersExpertise combined, opportunity multiplied: why I created a real assets business
While we are not the first asset manager to create a real assets business, we will go further in terms of integrating the component parts into a genuinely unified platform that can deliver better outcomes for our clients. We are placing a stake in the ground; highlighting our intention to shape the future of the real asset investment landscape.
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Defining Prime Logistics Markets
Because an outsized proportion of employment and demand growth, e-commerce expansion, and supply chain investment is realized in global prime logistics markets, it is useful to briefly describe and define these markets.
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White papersSocial infrastructure: a framework for measuring and managing impact
Investments in social infrastructure can deliver above-market financial returns while making a positive contribution to communities and the environment. But to achieve this dual return, investors need to be able to measure and manage the social and environmental goals of social infrastructure assets.
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White papersInsights: Charging ahead – renewables coupled with storage
Energy storage capabilities being developed for renewable energy resources have the potential to dramatically transform the global energy sector, as they provide the ability to balance electricity supply and demand.
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White papersLogistics investments in Spain, Italy and Portugal – growth opportunities in burgeoning markets
After Germany, Great Britain and France, Italy and Spain are the 4th and 5th largest logistics markets in Europe. In 2016, Italy’s logistics revenues topped EUR 91bn, and Spain surpassed EUR 72bn.
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White papersRenewable energy investments – why asset management optimisation matters
Over the last decade, institutional investors have actively sought to expand their allocations to real Infrastructure assets, in order to benefit from high risk-adjusted returns and inflation-protected cash flows.
