Real Assets – Page 47
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European 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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The 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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Disclosures, 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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Take 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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Four 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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From real-world problems to real-asset solutions
How real-asset investors must decarbonise to future-proof portfolios.
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Evergrande 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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Real Estate Outlook – Switzerland Edition 2H21
We expect economic recovery to progress in the coming quarters despite the resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
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The U.S. office market in a “post-COVID” world: shifting challenges offer rewards and pitfalls
The office sector faces unique challenges during the coming decade. In this special report, we examine the return to a new normal for the office property type and what it means for investors going forward.
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Evergrande Heads for Default
We believe systematic risk beyond the Chinese property market remains limited.
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Letter from Asia: Evergrande is no Lehman
For more than two decades, Evergrande’s journey to become one of China’s largest developer has come at a huge cost: ever rising indebtedness. At US$300 billion, the world’s most indebted property developer is now facing judgement day. Already falling behind on payments to banks, suppliers and holders of onshore wealth management products, interest payments on two Evergrande notes due on September 23 will provide a key test if the developer can meet its obligations to bondholders.
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Real Estate Outlook Global, Edition 3 - 2021: Industrial rides the wave
Recovery in the economy and real estate investment markets gathered pace in the second quarter, though the new Delta variant of the virus poses a threat.
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Making more possible. Investment opportunities with multi-managers
The multi-manager industry has boomed in recent years with many investors requiring more skills, resources and ways to access the market. Using a multi-manager can reduce the complexity of investing and make even complicated strategies accessible to a wider range of investors.
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Real Estate Outlook Europe, Edition 3 - 2021 - What lies beneath the waters?
Economic recovery is well underway in Europe, although the Delta variant dampens some of the promise from the first half of the year. Investor sentiment is more resilient than the underlying occupier markets, but is heavily targeted towards the “beds, sheds and meds” sectors.
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Q2 2021 U.S. Multifamily Investment Opportunity Post-COVID
U.S. rental housing has seen over time consistently increased demand from institutional real estate investors. Its positioning as an integral part of real estate investment portfolios is demonstrated by its current weighting of 26.8% in the open- end diversified core equity index (ODCE).1
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No Place Like Home
The demand for single-family housing in the U.S. should be exceptionally strong over the next decade due to a combination of demographic forces and lagging underinvestment in residential stock. Hines Research estimates that the market will require 17 million single-family housing starts from 2021–30. This would represent a dramatic escalation of home construction relative to any decade of the past fifty years and a generational opportunity for residential lot development.
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Keeping Real Estate Portfolios Above Water Amid Rising Sea Levels
As investors increasingly turn their attention to climate risks, concerns about global sea level rise are more frequently influencing investment decisions in real estate markets. The Barings Real Estate team discusses how to measure, analyze and mitigate such risks.
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Australia - a market awaiting a strong return
The covid-19 pandemic derailed a generation’s economic progress by sending the Australian economy into a technical recession in 2020. A renewed lockdown in New South Wales this year may produce another quarter of falling GDP.
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Infrastructure debt – Opportunities in the post-COVID recovery
As the global economy recovers from the COVID pandemic, companies and governments are re-thinking how economies operate and focusing on rebuilding in a more sustainable way. Recovery efforts are being supported by ambitious government spending plans that focus strongly on infrastructure.
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European Real Estate: To Build or Not to Build?
Higher build costs and longer construction periods pose a potential headwind for profits. But in select markets, developers have the ability to charge a premium rent and potentially exceed required returns.