Real Assets – Page 74
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Green buildings: what are the financial benefits for investors?
With the built environment responsible for almost 40% of energy consumption in the EU,1 real estate investors around the world are increasingly committing to more sustainable practices. Our study evidences that a portfolio of certified buildings experiences relatively higher operating expenses, but can also generate higher rental income and higher cash flows for distribution to investors.
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Top 10 real estate questions for 2019
We expect the cycle to continue to mature in 2019, with the trends already underway gradually accelerating.
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Inside Real Estate 2019 Outlook
What can we expect from the global economy in 2019? How will that affect commercial real estate?
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Gateway to global real estate: Opportunities & expertise
At Principal Real Estate Investors, our specialized market knowledge, dedicated and experienced teams around the globe, and extensive connections across all four quadrants of the market, help our clients access today’s investment opportunities.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q3 2018
The UK economy had a strong start to Q3 2018, output grew by 0.7% for the three months to August, an uplift of 30bps from Q2. All three sectors of the economy: services, construction and the production sector contributed positively to GDP growth, with the service sector (accounting for c.80% of the UK economy) providing the largest positive contribution to the headline figure.
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Perspective: Renewable Energies - HY1, 2019
Chancellor Merkel spoke of a Herculean task when she confirmed plans for the country’s phaseout of the nuclear energy programme in 2011. At that time, the energy transition was already in full swing, supported by the Renewable Energy Sources Act. Nuclear energy will be a thing of the past in Germany by 2022.
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Investing in US energy infrastructure: Navigating the changing landscape
This paper is a deep dive into the complexities of the US energy sector, and will build on themes that we highlighted in our previous global energy transition paper. In the US, clean energy and fossil fuels both play an important role, which creates investment opportunities across a wide spectrum of energy infrastructure.
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Real Estate Summary: Edition 4 2018
Real estate capitalization rates and yields are levelling off and rents are growing in most markets. There are multiple risks, including the steady escalation of the US-China trade war. We expect advanced economies to slow in 2019 but still remain in growth mode. New government policies increase the risk of error as central banks withdraw stimulus.
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Expertise combined, opportunity multiplied: why I created a real assets business
While we are not the first asset manager to create a real assets business, we will go further in terms of integrating the component parts into a genuinely unified platform that can deliver better outcomes for our clients. We are placing a stake in the ground; highlighting our intention to shape the future of the real asset investment landscape.
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2019 European annual outlook: When the going gets tough
In absolute terms, European real estate has appeared expensive for the last year, as indicated by record low yields across all four property types.
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Primed for Growth – New Trends Behind the Sustained Strength of Global Logistics
Logistics has been one of global real estate’s best performing sectors this cycle as population, wealth, and consumption have continued their sustained trend of growth and concentration in global gateway cities.
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Defining Prime Logistics Markets
Because an outsized proportion of employment and demand growth, e-commerce expansion, and supply chain investment is realized in global prime logistics markets, it is useful to briefly describe and define these markets.
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Positioning for growth and opportunities
The last two decades saw the best and the worst of times for real estate markets globally. Most may recall vague scenes of the global financial crisis in 2007, which are now distant memories, as the world embarked on the next stage of economic expansion.
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Social infrastructure: a framework for measuring and managing impact
Investments in social infrastructure can deliver above-market financial returns while making a positive contribution to communities and the environment. But to achieve this dual return, investors need to be able to measure and manage the social and environmental goals of social infrastructure assets.
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A Leader for Unlisted Real Estate Assets in the Australian Hospitality Marketplace
Hotels have become an established institutional grade asset class, forming a significant part of many investors’ portfolios. Provided they are skilfully acquired and actively managed, investments in the sector can generate attractive yields, with the potential to outperform CBD office building investments on a risk-adjusted returns basis.
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Non-traditional sectors: A focus on senior & student housing
Over the last few years, institutional investors have increased their exposure to non-traditional or alternative property types, which represented 14% of total direct real estate investment volumes in Europe in the first half of 2018.
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CVAs and the changing shape of UK retail
More retailers are turning to corporate voluntary arrangements to restructure their estates - but a dynamic landscape is no surprise for seasoned real estate investors.
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Enhancing Your Portfolio with Real Estate
A “back to basics” approach can produce better risk-adjusted returns
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The big picture: Asia Pacific core real estate discussion series
Even though much has already been spoken about the coming Asia Pacific growth era, the investment universe is still caught in a tug-of-war between the familiar comforts of growth in the West and the alien new growth in the East.