All Infrastructure articles – Page 28
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Magnify: M&G European Urban Connectivity Ranking
Paris and Berlin, both advanced providers of urban transport infrastructure, hold onto their 1st and 2nd positions, Stockholm climbs to 3rd, and Helsinki joins the top 10
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Infrastructure white paper series - Part 3
The infrastructure equity cycle: where are we now?
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UBS Asset Management closes second infrastructure fund-of-funds with EUR 368 million of commitments
APPIA II Global Infrastructure Portfolio seeks to provide a broad based exposure to the asset class with a focus on Europe and North America
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Why Urban Connectivity Counts For Investors
Connectivity is the smart physical and digital infra- structure that make our cities tick and helps their economies to grow. It keeps the wheels of our transport systems turning smoothly. And it facilitates interactions between residents, visitors, businesses and public and private institutions.
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Why governance is key to restoring trust in UK infrastructure
The UK infrastructure industry needs to face up to its failings and act in the best interests of all stakeholders. Developing a code of conduct would be a good place to start, argue Darryl Murphy and Mirza Baig.
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Play More Than The Illiquidity Premium With Real Assets
Real assets help achieving different needs through diversification, from inflation hedge, volatility dampener, to substitute to fixed income. We believe the macro economic and financial conditions appear very favourable to real assets in 2018.
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Infrastructure white paper series: Part 2
This series explores some of the key portfolio considerations of investing into infrastructure. Our first paper focused on the growing area of infrastructure debt. This paper, the second in our series, takes a closer look at how infrastructure returns might perform under various economic scenarios, and in particular in a rising interest rate environment. We use public and private infrastructure indices from 2004-2017 to help inform the analysis.
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The case for infrastructure debt
The infrastructure market has evolved from a bank-dominated market less than 10 years ago, to one with a growing institutional investor presence. The fundamental drivers are regulatory change and the search for yield.
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UK Private Rented Residential Sector: An income generative infrastructure investment?
For the Local Government Pension Scheme, the Government’s recent regulatory changes and the Brexit vote have fuelled economic uncertainty and created fresh challenges and opportunities.
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Global Real Estate Securities: 2017 Market Outlook
Our fundamental approach and valuation models suggest global REITs are priced to deliver an 8.5%–10.5% total return in 2017, consisting of a 4% current dividend yield and 5%–6% growth in earnings driven by occupancy gains, higher revenue from bringing in-place rents on expiring leases to market, acquisition of new properties and the completion of existing development projects.
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Changing cities: the evolution of Milan
One of the largest Italian cities in Italy, Milan is the leader in economic terms with the city’s GDP accounting for circa 10% of total GDP, while Lombardy accounts for almost 25% of the total.
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Paris offices – Fluctuat nec mergitur
“Fluctuat nec mergitur” has been the official Latin motto of Paris since the 14th century. In English it translates into “The ship is tossed by the waves, but does not sink”.
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The greatest investment theme of our lives?
How global listed infrastructure can provide the potential for stable, reliable and growing cashflows: In this paper we discuss the attributes of the asset class, focussing mainly on the cash generated by the underlying assets.
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Aviva Investors: Tilting at windmills?
Jason Hilgefort a prominent Dutch architect met with Keith Kelsall of Aviva Investors to discuss key trends in the European infrastructure market and how investors need to approach the financing of such projects
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Aviva Investors: Exploring infrastructure
Ian Berry explains why Dutch investors are increasingly recognising the appeal of a niche approach when it comes to infrastructure investment.
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Edmond de Rothschild: Infrastructure debt - fresh opportunities
Funding European infrastructure with senior debt: helping institutional investors earn high returns with privileged access to a long-term investment
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Union Investment acquires first solar park in France for infrastructure fund
Union Investment is continuing to expand the portfolio of its institutional infrastructure fund, which focuses on renewable energy sources in Europe
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Heitman adds to its Real Estate Securities Group
Heitman LLC, a global real estate investment management firm, today announced two new personnel appointments designed to support the company in achieving its long-term growth objectives and delivering best-in-class performance to its clients.
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CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust acquires two fully leased warehouse/distribution centres in Germany
CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust, through its European JV with Goodman Group, has acquired Graben Distribution Center I and Graben Distribution Center II, both located in Graben, Bavaria, Germany, outside Munich near the city of Augsburg.