The structural need for European banks to deleverage, particularly with new capital rules under Basel IV coming into effect from 2025 (dubbed as the Basel “Endgame”), is incentivising banks to engage in ‘risk-sharing’ regulatory capital solutions like Significant Risk Transfer and other asset solutions such as Specialty Finance trades. As banks double-down on capital relief and balance sheet optimisation, this is creating an attractive and unique entry point for investors to gain exposure to the core, yet ‘harder-to-access’, parts of bank balance sheets and earn potentially attractive risk-adjusted returns.
The Epsilon, or Greek letter ‘E’-shaped trifurcation of real estate investment portfolio valuations along alternative pathways from a decarbonisation ‘tipping point’ was introduced in: ‘The Epsilon Great Transformation of Real Estate Markets’ in our European Residential Vision 2023 report, which aimed to conceptualize the integration of climate change mitigation into investment strategies
The catalysts of the energy crisis, surging inflation and geopolitical turmoil ignited by the Covid pandemic and war in Ukraine are forcing an acceleration in the pace of economic transformation needed to confront two of the greatest challenges of our age: climate change and the poor-rich divide.