Real Assets – Page 3
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White papersPrimonial Reim Germany Convictions
The Research & Strategy Department’s role is to formalize Primonial REIM’s real estate investment strategies, based on continuous monitoring of the European markets. By nature, real estate is at the crossroads of financial (interest rates), economic (tenants), demographic and social factors. This is why a broad analysis is needed, which is also long term and therefore matches the horizon of most real estate investors.
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How to make smart cities a reality
Digital technology is transforming our lives. From how we talk to friends, family and colleagues to how we shop, technology is now firmly embedded. However, the potential of digitalisation to further revolutionise how we live, work and play is vast – and smart cities will be at the forefront of that change.
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How real estate investment creates opportunities in this post-crisis environment?
Thanks to its positioning as a global real estate investment player, Amundi is in a privileged position to observe the trend changes taking place in the sector. In particular, the changes in the way offices are used are likely to be profound, but they also offer new investment opportunities that are attracting an increasing number of retail investors, as Marc Bertrand, CEO of Amundi Real Estate, explains.
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Real Estate House View - Switzerland 2022
The residential sector in Switzerland has a surprise in store in 2021: the 12-year rise in the vacancy rate came to an end. On 1 June 2021, 9.5% fewer apartments were empty. One driver was the increased net immigration from abroad.
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Real Estate House View - United Kingdom 2022
Retail warehouse capital values grew 7.0% in Q4 2021 alone, roughly eight times the rate of other retail segments. This statistic helps illustrate the divergance in performance between different retail segments.
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Gas is in the black, not green
Would excluding natural gas from the green taxonomy prevent the financing of transition fuels?
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Real Estate House View - Europe 2022
The ongoing demand for real estate has in recent years turned former niche sectors (logistics, healthcare) into pioneers, and we are hearing of new ones such as life science, data centres and self-storage.
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Real estate and ESG: poised to move the needle
Investors of many different types are rapidly joining the ranks of those who support protection of the environment and slowing the rate of climate change. Real estate has been at the center of the broader Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement, which includes social and governance priorities alongside environmental ones. All three criteria are rapidly becoming embedded in the investment processes of real estate managers.
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The Inflation Inflection
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the range of policies aimed at mitigating its impact, has triggered a return to levels of inflation unseen for 40 years. While inflation is likely to moderate from these very high levels during 2022, we believe it will settle and persist at a rate higher than we have become used to over recent cycles.
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Levelling up and why the U.K. real estate industry should pay attention
At the beginning of February 2022, the U.K. government announced its long awaited ‘levelling up’ plan to address and close the gap between the rich and poorest parts of the country. An ambitious target of 2030 is set and much needed as, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies1, the U.K. is one of the most geographically uneven countries, with income inequality ranked as one of the highest in Europe.
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Investment Symposium Series – Signs of a thaw in China’s property freeze
China’s efforts to tackle soaring home prices and rein in its large property developers have sparked heavy asset price falls and concerns over a credit crunch. However, for our China specialists, there have also been signs of a gradual turnaround.
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Supply Change: How logistics is racing to meet demand
Core industrial property prices have never been as elevated as they are now, so selecting assets for which occupiers will pay higher rents is increasingly crucial to investment performance, argues UBS Asset Management’s Brice Hoffer.
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Disruptive tech – Far-reaching changes that have further to go
The extensive changes in how we work, consume and communicate over the last few years have augmented disruption from information technology. This is propelling advances in, for example, cloud computing, the internet of things, content streaming and artificial intelligence.
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Investing in the New Global Infrastructure Economy
In a recent interview in the Preqin Global Infrastructure 2022 report, Biff Ourso and Andy Deihl of Nuveen Infrastructure discuss how changing global demographics and structural trends are creating opportunities for private infrastructure to invest in the transition to a low carbon economy.
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US vs. Europe inflation – A tale of two continents
Following the US Federal Reserve’s lead, central banks in Europe turned hawkish in the first week of February. Our inflation-linked bond specialists, however, see important differences in the outlook for inflation in the eurozone compared to the US.
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Real assets: An alternative way to hedge inflation risk
As inflation soars to levels not seen in years, the costs of hedging against it via traditional liquid market securities are becoming prohibitively expensive. Real assets might offer institutional investors a better option, argues Luke Layfield.
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Thought Leadership: Transformation in the property markets
Sustainable transformation of their real estate holdings is right at the top of the agenda for institutional property investors in Europe. Given growing pressure from European as well as national and local regulations to improve the sustainability of property stock, 68 per cent of the 150 real estate companies surveyed across the three largest European economies by Union Investment for its investment climate study are responding primarily by investing in sustainable refurbishment of their portfolios.
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Infrastructure: a direct route to impact investing
Interview with Gilles Lengaigne, Head of Origination & Corporate Development at Generali Global Infrastructure – part of the Generali Investments’ platform
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Infrastructure debt: The future is green
Sustainability and the energy transition have certainly remained at the forefront of government and public agendas, despite the pandemic. This is particularly true in Europe. It is also true that we’re seeing an increasing emphasis on ESG from institutional investors.
