Real Assets – Page 43
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White papersDefining retail city centres in 2030
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated contact-limiting measures, some of the world’s busiest shopping streets became deserted, and city centres came to resemble ghost towns. In the Netherlands, we suddenly had more than enough space to cycle in places where crowding would normally make it difficult to walk.
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White papersSurging Construction Costs: Implications for Commercial Real Estate
Clarion Partners: U.S. multifamily construction companies have experienced steep material price increases and a lack of available construction supplies.
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White papersHas the Retail Sugar Hit Passed?
In the third quarter, European real estate investment broadly recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The Barings Real Estate team weighs in.
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White papersEurope’s living sector shows strong signs of life
One in every four euros is invested in Europe’s living sector, but which assets are thriving the most? Activity in senior housing and care assets has helped the sub-sector grow a record 13% share of overall residential transaction volumes, while both student and subsidised housing are also strong performers.
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White papersBuildings for change: impact investing in U.K. real estate
Real estate is a natural home for impact investing. The built environment offers scope to create positive environmental and social benefits for communities, as well as attractive financial returns for investors.
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White papersRoadmap to Net Zero Carbon
Orchard Street Investment Management (OSIM) has committed by 2030 to achieve net zero carbon for our landlord emissions, refurbishments and corporate emissions, and by 2040 for our occupier emissions and fit-outs.
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White papersRethinking the role of the office for a post-COVID world
From now on, companies want their office spaces to work as hard as their employees do.
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White papersCommercial Real Estate and Inflation-Resistant Income
Commercial real estate (i.e. industrial, office, apartment, retail and hotel properties) offers investors an inflation- resistant source of income as well as the potential for attractive long-term returns.
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White papersA Historical Analysis of Inflation’s Impact on Real Estate
Temporary bouts of inflation have arisen throughout my 23-year career, prompting questions that result in hour long webinars and/or 20-page white papers on the matter as those bouts materialize. On the surface, concerns about inflation appear valid.
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White papersLaying the Foundations: Understanding Current Real Estate Dynamics
From de-urbanization to e-commerce, three heads of our real estate teams debate key sector trends.
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White papersEuropean alternatives: A slow burner destined for a big future
In Europe, the evolution of new property types, also called alternative sectors, have tended to lag behind the U.S., as Europe’s range of legal and tax systems, capital markets, currencies and city planning regimes make it much harder to implement strategies across borders. Consider the great variety of building designs across countries, which is in stark contrast to the relative homogeneity of shopping malls, apartment blocks or offices in the U.S.
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White papersReal Estate: Global Opportunities vs UK 2021 and Beyond
In this update we are focusing on global vs domestic UK real estate investments. Typically a domestically invested asset class, we explore the return opportunities offered overseas and the benefit of international diversification (a philosophy taken for granted in most traditional asset classes). This is supported by empirical data that reflects on a tumultuous year in 2020 and, using Invesco Real Estate’s “on the ground” experience, looks toward the investment opportunities in 2021 and beyond.
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White papersEuropean Hotels Checking in for the Recovery
We believe that the recent repricing in European hotels could represent a good opportunity to acquire either core hotels for a long-term hold or value-add projects following a manage-to-core strategy.
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White papersThe Future of Office: From Uncertainty to Opportunity
There are three key drivers that will shape office demand in the recovery ahead—and ultimately determine which assets and markets will be the winners and which will be the losers.
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White papersDisclosures, trade-offs and green premia: The future of sustainability in real assets
The path to a sustainable future for private markets is full of opportunity but also complexity, as Laurence Monnier and Ed Dixon explain.
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White papersTake Care, BentallGreenOak’s Annual Philanthropy Report
The continuing ravages of the pandemic have been most acutely felt in the sub-sections of our communities where poverty and insecurity persist. In this intensifying need for social care and relief, BentallGreenOak (BGO) employees dove heart-first into 2021 with a commitment to serving our communities.
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White papersFour Top of Mind ESG Challenges in the Quest for Net Zero
If this moment in time—when the world’s fixation on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues touches every facet of life—feels different, it’s because it is. For all the motivations that should have led to an urgent response on the climate crisis decades ago, one catalyst has energized public and private stakeholders into collective action: obsolescence.
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White papersFrom real-world problems to real-asset solutions
How real-asset investors must decarbonise to future-proof portfolios.
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White papersEvergrande Crisis and Contagion Risks
Our Emerging Markets Equity team shares its views on Chinese property developer Evergrande and the real estate sector in general.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland Edition 2H21
We expect economic recovery to progress in the coming quarters despite the resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
