Real Assets – Page 14
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White papersRipple effects: The wider impacts of regenerating UK town and city centres
In this second article in our series exploring investment and impact opportunities across the UK real estate landscape, Christopher Santer, Fund Manager, Positive Impact Investment, Real Estate, focuses on the broad-based potential benefits of regeneration projects targeting town and city centres, including the role they can play in helping to address a chronic undersupply of housing in the UK.
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White papers2025 European hotel market outlook
European hotels has been one of the most resilient sectors over the last two years, and we believe it will continue to present a compelling investment case, amid strong fundamentals, widening supply-demand imbalance, and a positive long-term tourism outlook. European hotels represent one of our preferred choices for 2025 alongside global data centers, logistics, and residential sectors.
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White papersRelative value in private markets: Positive but selective
Using proprietary data, our private markets research team compares risk and return across sectors.
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White papersUK real estate market commentary: January 2025
Despite the economic and market turbulence that has followed the Autumn Budget, we continue to see a cyclical buying opportunity focused on key segments that are backed by strong operating fundamentals.
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White papersEuropean real estate market commentary: January 2025
Despite economic sentiment deteriorating in the closing months of 2024, real estate occupier markets remain robust and pricing is stabilising with first signs of selective yield compression, supporting our view of a cyclical buying opportunity in key markets and segments.
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White papersPRI Assessment results for 2024 released
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have released the 2024 assessment results. This annual assessment measures PRI signatories’ commitment to implementing the six Principles of Responsible Investment in their investment practices and disclosures. These principles aim to promote the integration of ESG considerations into investment decision making, increase accountability and transparent disclosures, and encourage the broader implementation of these principles by the broader investment industry.
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White papersTop 10 questions on real estate markets for 2025
2024 was a year of recovery, with GDP rising across most countries and inflation moderating, albeit remaining volatile. Ultimately, the much hoped-for soft landing was achieved. Improved financial conditions and investor sentiment fed through to a slow pick-up in real estate investment activity. The easing of monetary policy in 2024 has resulted in the prolonged downturn coming to an end. However, we think that the conditions prevailing in the post-GFC era will not be mirrored, with interest rates set to remain elevated and above pre-pandemic levels. We think that 2025 will be a year of progress, as we turn the corner, but that economic and political uncertainties will remain.
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White papersInvesting in Biodiversity
Markets to finance the protection, restoration and sustainable management of nature offer natural capital investors opportunities to improve biodiversity and generate a positive financial return.
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White papersA thematic framework for investing in the nature and climate transition
We’ve identified five broad investment themes that comprehensively address the challenges of climate change and nature loss.
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White papersA balancing act: how can sustainably managed forests offer investment opportunities while protecting forestland and safeguarding biodiversity?
While the notions of natural capital and nature-based solutions are spreading amongst the investment community, the initial focus has been on a forest’s ability to sequester and store carbon. When it comes to forests as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, very few investors new to forestry investing know what sustainable forest management endeavours to achieve, and why it can indeed be one of the answers to safeguarding biodiversity.
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White papersHines Acquires First Retail Asset in Asia Pacific in Partnership with Haben
Westpoint retail acquisition in Sydney, Australia reflects growing optimism in the sector
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White papersCore real estate: 5 big reasons why it’s back
We found five reasons for calling a turning point in the fortunes of an asset that sits at the heart of many property portfolios. What do you think?
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White papersTop 10 questions on real estate markets for 2025: Exploring key predictions with our experts
2024 was a year of recovery, with GDP rising across most countries and inflation moderating, albeit remaining volatile. Ultimately, the much hoped-for soft landing was achieved. Improved financial conditions and investor sentiment fed through to a slow pick-up in real estate investment activity.
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White papersOutlook 2025 - Plan for growth, prepare for volatility
2025 is shaping up to be another good year for investor returns, with healthy global GDP growth likely to support earnings, and falling interest rates putting mild upward pressure on valuation multiples. Explore our key macroeconomic views and the asset class implications across infrastructure, real estate, equities, and credit markets for the year ahead.
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White papersBuilding value in a ‘brave new world’
Financial markets are adjusting to a new era defined by macroeconomic volatility and elevated uncertainty. We call it the ‘brave new world’. In this new regime, investors can no longer solely rely on high levels of real growth or low interest rates to drive returns. For private markets, this shift emphasizes the importance of value creation through asset transformation and identifying investment themes supported by long-term secular trends. In this paper, we examine the factors influencing our perspective on the evolving macroeconomic landscape and individual asset classes, which inform our relative value investment strategy in this ‘brave new world’.
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White papers2024 timberland investment performance set to meet or exceed 2023
Last year’s U.S. private timberland investments look likely to overtake their previous year’s performance. As we await full-year reporting inclusive of annual valuations through appraisals or market transactions, this performance could offer an indication of what to expect for 2025.
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White papersPrivate markets and the data revolution: Challenges, solutions, and the future with AI
To conclude our 2024 Private Markets Study series, we gathered a panel of industry specialists from the financial services and technology sectors to analyze how LPs and GPs are tackling data challenges, evolving their strategies, and leveraging AI to transform private markets.
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White papers2025 Real Estate Outlook: Tipping Point
The post-COVID years have been characterized by dramatic shifts in economic conditions, capital markets and the geopolitical landscape. No two years have been quite the same, and uncertainty in the outlook for the economy in general, and commercial real estate in particular, has been historically elevated.
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White papersInfographic: How to access the real estate opportunity
This visual explainer provides an overview of the key features of private real estate and the investment opportunities for investors.
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White papersAlt+Shift: Expanding Options In Alternative Property Types
Two to three decades ago, access to alternative property types was largely limited to indirect investments through the public REIT market.
