All Italy articles – Page 3
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White papersItaly: Few Ambitions From The New Budget Framework
On 30 September the newly formed Italian government released an update to April’s Economic and Finance Document, with new fiscal plans for the years 2019 to 2022 and changes to the underlying economic assumptions.
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White papersCore Matters Investment Returns: A 5-year perspective
2019 has seen huge inflows into Fixed Income (FI) funds and outflows from Equities. From a medium-term return perspective this makes no sense. The formidable demand for safe assets reflects cyclical and structural forces (e.g. ageing). No matter the economic scenario, FI returns over the next five years are ...
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White papersResearch Blast - Italian real estate market – October 2019
The relation between Italian government bond rates and the local real estate market
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White papersView on Italy: beyond the short term
The end of the political crisis and next steps for the new government: The new pro-European government looks to be willing to move in a different direction vs the previous one, with an agenda focused on green and socially inclusive policies. It is difficult to project how long this new coalition will last, but it will certainly have to address the next budget law. We expect to see some expansionary measures (lower labour costs plus investment spending), but without putting public finances at risk. However, the available room for manoeuvre is narrow.
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White papersItalian politics take centre stage
The Deputy PM Matteo Salvini recently withdrew his party’s support to the coalition government headed by PM Giuseppe Conte, calling for a vote of no-confidence against the PM and subsequent snap elections. On the 20th of August, after addressing the Senate, PM Conte resigned. President Sergio Mattarella will now weigh three options – consult political parties to form a new government (with the same forces of the current coalition or new ones), appoint a caretaker government or call for fresh elections.
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Asset Manager News
Barings Expands Italian Portfolio With Logistics Acquisition In Veneto Region
Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, announces the acquisition of a portfolio of six logistics assets comprising c. 95,000 square meters. This acquisition also includes the forward funding of two pre-let developments, in Veneto region, North East of Italy, on behalf of one of its managed accounts.
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White papersItaly: A Long And Winding Road
Arm-wrestling within the Italian government and between Italy and Brussels to find a solution to the Italian budget and avoid the Excessive Deficit Procedure. After Italy’s exit from a technical recession in H2 2018, economic data are still pointing to weakness, and many risks loom in the second half of this year.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - July 2019
CIO Views: Central Banks Fuel markets: Illusion vs Reality This Month’s Topic: Italy: A Long and Winding Road
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Asset Manager NewsGenerali Real Estate completes the full refurbishment of ‘The Corner’ in Milan
Property of Fondo Mascagni and managed by Generali Real Estate SpA Società di gestione del risparmio (GRE SGR), the building was entirely redesigned and refurbished. It will host the headquarters of several primary companies such as Versace and FC Internazionale
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White papersItaly: no short-term confrontation with the EU, but uncertainty in the mid-term.
In the new forecasts for the 2020 budget and beyond from the Italian government (from the latest economic blueprint, of 9 April: “The Stability and Growth Path, SGP”), its economic projections come much closer to consensus than previous ones, pointing to weaker GDP growth.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA wins EUR 180 million fund management mandate in Italy
PATRIZIA Immobilien AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, has secured a fund management mandate in Italy from Fondazione Cariverona – one of the most important Italian bank foundations and founder of UNICREDIT Bank. Verona Property is an Italian real estate fund with assets under management (AUM) of EUR 180 million. It will be managed on behalf of the institutional investor, Fondazione Cariverona, with the aim of unlocking value from the current assets and ultimately recycling capital to deliver a more diversified real estate portfolio.
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Asset Manager NewsUBS Asset Management completes acquisition of Milan business campus for EUR 118 million
Transaction represents first institutional Club Deal of UBS’s European Club Deal strategy La Forgiatura campus is a redeveloped former industrial site 100% carbon-free scheme, delivering strong sustainability credentials
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - February 2019
After a tough December, which led to an abrupt valuation reset, risk assets rebounded in the first weeks of the year, boosted by a market-sympathetic turn in Fed rhetoric and an increased optimism on trade negotiations. As the current reasons for optimism should be confirmed, we believe it is time to re-approach the areas of risk assets where the correction has brought value back, especially in emerging markets.
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White papersItaly moves towards an Excessive Deficit Procedure, but a change of attitude is in the air
This large and unprecedented deliberate breach of the so-called “preventive arm” measures therefore calls for moving Italy into the “corrective arm” of the Stability and Growth Pact.
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Asset Manager NewsGenerali Real Estate welcomes WeWork in Milan, in via Meravigli 2
Generali Real Estate announces that WeWork, the innovative global network of work spaces where companies and people grow together, has selected the building in via Meravigli 2, in Milan, to host one of its first locations in Italy.
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Asset Manager News
Generali Real Estate enters Nordics property market with Copenhagen acquisition
Milan – Generali Real Estate S.p.A. has completed, on behalf of Generali Group’s GEIH (Generali Europe Investments Holding) Fund, the acquisition of a prime high-street retail asset in central Copenhagen.
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Asset Manager News
Swiss Life Asset Managers, Real Estate France acquires two commercial properties in Milan, Italy
Following the acquisition in May 2018 of two hotel properties in Milan, Swiss Life Asset Managers, Real Estate France has acquired two commercial properties in October in Milan, Italy.
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White papersItalian budget proposal under scrutiny
The key points of the budget law. The Italian Government negatively surprised the markets by announcing a substantially increased budget deficit target for 2019-2021 to 2.4% in a move that could undermine the potential to reduce the Italian debt burden (130% of GDP) in the coming years.
