All North America articles – Page 24
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Now vs. the GFC
Comparisons between the turmoil in January and February versus the GFC in 2009 yield a number of observations.
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Perspective: Global Volatility, The Real Economy, and Real Estate
Bouts of financial market volatility likely to return
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Timbercreek launches balanced REIT portfolio
New UCITS fund invests in preferred securities of U.S. REITs and common equity of global REITs
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Principal Real Estate Investors Honored by EPA as a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Principal Real Estate Investors with a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Energy Management Award for its outstanding efforts to improve the energy efficiency of U.S. buildings and facilities through its actions.
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Why should institutional investors consider global private equity real estate?
For many years, investor motivations for considering real estate have included its characteristic stable income, strong historical relative performance across multiple cycles, and potential diversification benefits when held with other asset classes in a portfolio.
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UBS Asset Management's Global Real Estate business undertakes EUR 7.1 billion in transactions in 2015
UBS Asset Management’s Global Real Estate business conducted EUR 7.1 billion of transactions in 2015, compared to EUR 6.0 billion in 2014.
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Time to Re-load? Current High Yield Bond Prices Present Long-Term Value
Global risk markets have been under pressure lately due to a confluence of factors—weakness in China and other global economies, plunging oil and commodity prices, and the onset of the removal of monetary accommodation by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Global Real Estate Securities – 2015 Performance Review and 2016 Market Outlook
2015 was a challenging year for the broader markets overall as macro-economic and political events dominated news headlines causing lackluster investment performance across most asset classes around the world. The collapse in oil prices (-30.5%) played havoc on countries and currencies reliant on energy exports.
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Key risks for global real estate in 2016
Aided by extremely loose global monetary policy, capital values have experienced a strong recovery since the crisis. We believe this period of very strong capital growth has largely run its course and the window to capture significant yield compression is passing quickly, says Sandip Bhalsod.
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Global Core Pricing
Given varying dynamics in the three major regions regarding commercial real estate pricing, it is easier to speak at the individual region level.
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US Economic Outlook: Q3 2015
The US economy continued to lumber forward in Q3, as evidenced by the just-released GDP reading of 1.5% growth on an annualized basis.
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Searching for Returns: Real Estate - Investors Take Profits
International pressure to invest opens up selling opportunities
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Pension Risk Transfer Gains Momentum in a Low Interest-Rate Environment
The pension risk transfer space continues to proliferate, with plan sponsors from an array of market sectors, firm sizes and geographical locations proactively transferring pension risk to insurance companies.
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Bouwinvest Strengthens International Real Estate Investment Team, to Take Larger Stakes in Funds and Listed Firms Globally, Plans to Place € 1.0 Billion in Investments
Dutch institutional investment manager Bouwinvest has strengthened its international real estate investments team, promoting Cathelijne Martin to Regional Manager Europe and appointing Robert Koot as Portfolio Manager Europe and North America.
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US Economic Outlook: Q2 2015
July’s economic data for the US, to a large extent, represented more of the same with some mixed economic news.
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What QE in Europe Means for Real Estate Investors
Roughly three months after the Fed announced that its third and final quantitative easing (QE) program was complete, the European Central Bank (ECB) finally announced that it was starting its first QE program.
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Mezzanine Debt – Does it Make Sense Today?
Advancing into the seventh year of an extended and bumpy economic recovery, amidst global uncertainty on the direction and pace of growth, questions naturally arise about the relative attractiveness of alternative real estate investment strategies.
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European Quantitative Easing expected to boost real estate investment
Invesco Real Estate (IRE) today publishes its H1 2015 Real Estate House View: European Market Outlook, an overview of the European real estate market over the next five years.
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Big City, Bright Lights, Better Returns?
Real estate investors have a natural affinity for big cities in Europe and North America. Most big cities are forecast to see relatively strong economic and population growth over the next decade and they also have deep and relatively liquid investment markets.
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Webcast: The Global Private Finance Opportunity
As investors continue to hunt for yield in this historically low interest rate environment, global private credit markets offer a potential solution for achieving both attractive returns and diversification.