All Research & Forecasting articles
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White papersWhy Australia: A Growth Inflection Point
This is the second edition of Charter Hall’s Why Australia report, a leading thought leadership paper published annually.
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White papersInfrastructure 2025 Outlook
In 2025, the macro backdrop for private infrastructure is undoubtedly positive. Economic growth is resilient, inflation remains above average, and interest rates are declining. Valuations have also fallen in recent years, offering relative value compared to public markets. All stars appear aligned for the asset class, but here is a simple truth – there is no easy money left in infrastructure.
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White papersSchroders Capital Investment Outlook: Real Estate H2 2024
Our latest outlook shares findings from our proprietary valuation framework, which suggests that the sequential opportunity to access the long-term benefits of real estate on an attractive entry basis is now live across key geographies and sectors.
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White papersInfrastructure debt: Capturing the mainstream
Jerome Neyroud, head of infrastructure debt investments at Schroders Capital, on why infrastructure debt is no longer niche, the appeal of the asset class and the sectors poised to drive future demand.
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White papers2023 ESG Report
At Hines, we strive to be the best – and most innovative – real estate investment, development, and management firm in the world. Over the years, ESG has become an increasingly critical part of our thinking and planning for the future of Hines.
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White papersListed infrastructure: a missing piece in your portfolio
Investing in essential service providers, which are integral to our daily lives, results in unique investment characteristics that can diversify your portfolio across market cycles. The defensive growth profile of the asset class complements equities, fixed income, and private infrastructure. Integrating GLI into a traditional 60/40 portfolio by substituting 10% of equities holds the potential to provide similar returns while lowering overall portfolio risk.
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White papersMacroeconomic and financial market forecasts - October 2024
Macroeconomic forecasts as of 4 October
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White papersIs it prime for picking?
If you were to write down the combination of factors to create the ideal scenario for value-add investing, it would look remarkably similar to what we see in today’s markets. The alignment of deep repricing, intense liquidity pressures, the need to bridge the debt financing gap, a progressive regulatory environment, a reduced supply pipeline, evolving structural mega-trends and the loosening of interest rates have created a distinct opportunity for investors ready and able to deploy capital into real estate.
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White papersRising inequality: a global sustainability challenge that needs our attention
As the global economy grows, an increasing number of people are being left behind. This is more than a moral crisis—it’s an economic one.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition 2H24: Market momentum
The macroeconomic environment in recent years has been characterized by great volatility. The pandemic and the resulting economic slump were followed by inflation, interest rate hikes and the associated fears of recession as well as geopolitical upheaval, which significantly increased uncertainty in global trading markets.
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White papersEuropean life sciences real estate
It’s darkest before dawn in European real estate markets
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White papersCharter Hall Group 2024 ESG Data Book
Charter Hall Group (ASX:CHC) is one of Australia’s leading integrated property groups. We predominately co-invest in the funds and partnerships managed by the Group, for assets within the Office, Retail Shopping Centre, Industrial & Logistics, Social Infrastructure | & Long WALE Retail sectors. For investors in Charter Hall Long WALE REIT (ASX:CLW), Charter Hall Retail REIT (ASX:CQR), and Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT (ASX:CQE) consolidated environmental performance data tabs have been provided.
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White papersCharter Hall Group 2024 Annual Report
(CHC, Charter Hall or the Group) is one of Australia’s leading fully integrated property investment and funds management groups. For more than three decades, we have focused on the collective ambitions of our customers, driving mutual success and enduring impact.
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White papersCharter Hall Group FY24 Results Presentation
We use our expertise to access, deploy, manage and invest equity to create value and generate superior returns for our investor customers
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White papers2024 Mid-Year Real Estate Outlook
Bulls and bears both had ample evidence to support their cases coming into 2024. Although inflation has yet to relent to a level that the central banks are comfortable enough to normalize policy interest rates, the global economy has remained remarkably resilient thanks to strong hiring and consumer spending.
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White papersTimberland’s expanding investable universe
Timberland earns a position in many institutional investors’ portfolios because of its portfolio-level benefits – a lack of correlation with capital markets, ability to hedge inflation, and steady income return. For some investors, portfolio decarbonization is an increasingly important portfolio benefit that also comes from an allocation to timberland.
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Asset Manager NewsWho are the world’s largest impact capital managers? The 2024 Impact 50 list revealed
The Impact 50 is our proprietary list of the world’s largest managers of private markets impact capital, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other strategies.
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White papersRoom to grow: Bidwells article on the role of real estate in the commercialization of R&D
The creation of any ready-to-use product from Research & Development (R&D) needs to consider the ‘five Ps’ of Good Manufacturing Process (GMP)
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White papersMaking sense of infrastructure debt
The capital expenditure required to support anticipated growth in power demand while also reducing carbon emissions will necessitate significant amounts of debt financing going forward. Don Dimitrievich, Portfolio Manager for Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit, explains the evolving infrastructure debt opportunity set and the EIC team’s approach to thematic investing in IPE’s recent July/August 2024 report.
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White papersListed vs. private infrastructure: Why not both?
Investing in listed infrastructure may provide benefits that make a strong case for a larger allocation to listed markets relative to private investments than is currently observed by institutional investors. At Nuveen, we strongly believe in the infrastructure asset class.
