Real Assets – Page 90
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Tsunami of Capital Targeting European Real Estate Carries Liquidity Warning
By Richard Croft, CEO of M7 Real Estate: As a tsunami of capital inundates Europe’s real estate markets there is a danger of being swept up by talk that ‘now is a great time to be buying real estate.’ If only it were that simple.
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Listed real estate: an unexpected buttress against rising rates
After a strong year for listed real estate securities, many investors are wondering whether the sector can continue to grow in an economic environment which may see rising interest rates.
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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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Office space trends in Europe: The disappearance of the adjustment cycle
The cyclical growth pattern of office stock across European markets in the last decades has been subject to several structural breaks and changes, which has resulted in a less flexible supply side.
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Asia-Pacific property investing – challenges and opportunities
Despite negative headlines about the health of several Asia-Pacific economies (most notably China) and the yields on core properties falling below historical averages in most major markets, we still see attractive investment opportunities in the region, albeit through a more targeted approach.
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Principal Global Investors - Unlocking the future of capital markets
Like a sort of financial physics, the world exerts a force on capital markets at least equal to the force that capital markets exert on the world. This paper will examine four of these current forces that will have a great influence on the future of capital markets.
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White papershospitalityinside Investment BAROMETER Spring 2015 - supported by Union Investment
The overall index has decreased slightly with 3,811 points (-1.73 percent) compared to last fall and is thus returning to the level of spring 2014. However, the good mood in the hotel industry hides the scepticism about its own business expectations and new hotel projects.
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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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Perspectives: The impact of QE on European property markets
The European Central Bank plans to inject €1.1 trillion into the eurozone economy through its new quantitative easing programme from March 2015 to September 2016. In this paper, we look at what QE is likely to mean for the region’s real estate market.
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Insights: Q1 2015
In Asia, active management is becoming an increasingly important driver of outperformance, against a backdrop of moderately positive rental growth and relatively low yields. Attractively priced prime assets aren’t as easy to find as they were a year or two ago.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Wind
The boom in the German onshore wind market is unwavering. The rate of construction of wind power plants has increased by more than 50 % in 2014 with a newly installed capacity of around 4.75 GW (including repowering) compared to the previous year.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Photovoltaics
Europe’s share in the photovoltaics market is continuing to shrink. Nevertheless, Germany is still one of the most significant photovoltaics markets in the world with a PV capacity of around 38 GW at the end of 2014.
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White papersOutlook 1H15: Eurozone commercial real estate market - Navigating political uncertainties – in an improving economic environment
The economic headlines from the second half of 2014 could easily give the impression that the eurozone’s economy was heading towards another crisis. There were concerns that the economic recovery had stagnated, with 2Q14 data showing that France and Germany, the eurozone’s two largest economies, had recorded negative growth and in so doing dragged the eurozone’s overall growth down to 0.1%.
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White papersOutlook 1H15: UK commercial real estate market - Will 2015 be a year of two halves?
Economic data from the end of 2014 continued the pattern of softer growth recorded since the summer, with 4Q14 GDP growth of 0.5% the slowest for a year. Nonetheless, this left growth for 2014 as a whole at a robust 2.6% and the fastest of the G7 nations, and given some reasonably strong high frequency data in 4Q, it is likely the final figures may be revised up in the future.
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Public real estate debt strategies: Commercial mortgage-backed securities
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (“CMBS”) represents a prominent segment of the U.S. commercial real estate investment landscape, carrying an outstanding balance of over $564 billion. Principal Global Investors Real Estate believes current economic trends, U.S. commercial real estate fundamentals, and factors specific to the CMBS market are conducive to positive long-term CMBS performance.
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M&G Real Estate - Eye on Europe: where to invest in 2015?
The European real estate market looks to be on track for another strong year, building on 2014’s performance. We expect UK returns to remain in double digits, while continental Europe – which has lagged so far – is well positioned to rebound. Across the board, investor demand remains strong and ...
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Quantitative easing - Lower for longer also holds for European prime office yields
More than six years after the global financial crisis we are still in the uncharted territory of unconventional monetary policy. With the ECB now finally following the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Central Bank of Japan, quantitative easing (QE) will for the foreseeable future remain a central ...
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Real estate market outlook - UK
The UK was the fastest growing member of the G7 group of major advanced economies in 2014, outpacing even the US. For two full years now, real GDP has been rising at a quarterly rate in excess of 0.5%, and the economy seems to have moved back on to a sustainable path of robust growth.
