All REIM articles – Page 9
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White papers
A 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 papers
Hines 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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Video
Live from Davos: Bloomberg Surveillance
Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern speak daily with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. No other program better positions investors and executives for the trading day.
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Asset Manager News
Invesco Real Estate & Propel Industrial to redevelop 80,000 sqm German industrial brownfield site
Invesco Real Estate, the USD 85bn global real estate investment business of Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), has acquired a cluster of warehouses in Bruchsal, Germany, on behalf of Invesco Real Estate Europe Fund III – SCSp (Europe III), the third European value-add strategy in succession for the firm.
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Core 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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Top 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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Outlook 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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Asset Manager News
Charter Hall demonstrates depth of demand for small-scale industrial assets with $500 million in sales
Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall or the Group) is pleased to announce that it has successfully divested of approximately $500 million in small-scale industrial assets over the last 18 months, in accretive transactions that demonstrate the depth of demand for assets in the sub-$50 million price bracket.
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Asset Manager News
Invesco Real Estate caps record 2024 for logistics deals with forward development of Grade A site in Piedmont
Invesco Real Estate, the EUR 80bn global real estate investment business of Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), has forward funded the development of a Grade A 25,000 sqm cold storage logistics facility in the Piedmont region of Italy on behalf of a long-standing German separate account mandate.
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Podcast
Acquisition of ENSO
In December 2024 Igneo agreed the 100% acquisition of Madrid-based bioenergy company ENSO Group. In this NEWSFLASH episode Ignacio Perez provides an insight into this innovative company and its focus on facilitating the decarbonisation of Iberia’s heat and electricity supply utilising electric, thermal and cogeneration biomass plants.
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Asset Manager News
Achmea Real Estate launches new impact fund with ADRIF
Achmea Real Estate today launches a new impact fund, specifically aimed at acquiring and making older rental homes more sustainable: the Achmea Dutch Residential Impact Fund (ADRIF). Achmea is the first financial services provider with such a fund.
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Asset Manager News
Invesco Real Estate Europe Fund III and Simten launch new platform ‘Original Works’ and exchange contracts for first London office development project
Invesco Real Estate, the USD 85bn global real estate investment business of Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), and Simten, the London based developer of healthy and sustainable buildings, today announce that they are creating a new platform to combine their expertise in both real estate investment management and development.
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Research Report
The 2025 Private Markets Macro Outlook: Decarbonise, Digitise, Deglobalise
Despite public markets having closed out 2024 near all-time highs, investors continue to face a number of uncertainties – most notably, the war in Ukraine and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East – that will impact global economic growth and investment opportunities in a range of ways.
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White papers
Building 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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2024 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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Private 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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2025 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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Podcast
Infrastructure: From Niche to Mainstream Asset Class - With Luba Nikulina, CSO of IFM Investors
Luba covers the advantages of infrastructure as an asset class in portfolios, including target sectors, geographies and the significant return potential of sustainable assets amidst the net zero transition.
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Asset Manager News
ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund Focuses Strategy exclusively on G5 Cities in the Netherlands
The fund sells one office in Zwolle and two offices in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund sold three offices from its portfolio last year: Schellepoort in Zwolle and the offices Pavillon and Semaphore in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. This aligns with the fund’s refined strategy to focus on offices near major intercity stations exclusively in the G5 cities of the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, and Eindhoven.
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Alt+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.