All Research & Forecasting articles – Page 2
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White papersModern warehouses driving the next phase of industrial growth
Modern logistics and warehouse assets are leading global industrial growth, with demand supported by e-commerce, supply-chain resilience, and limited new development creating room for rent recovery.
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White papersHow can insurers position credit portfolios amid higher risk and uncertainty?
Insurers face a challenging credit landscape, with spreads near historic tights and limited dispersion. As uncertainty persists, strategies focused on credit quality, liquidity, and spread duration are gaining traction. Evolving regulations and underutilised asset classes, like high-quality structured credit, offer new opportunities to strengthen portfolios and enhance long-term resilience.
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White papersAn introduction to real estate debt
Over the last several years, we have seen an increase in the number of institutional investors around the world interested in adding real estate debt to their portfolios. In some instances, this is to replace an allocation to traditional fixed income, while in others it is both an enhancement and a way to further diversify their current level of real estate holdings.
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White papersPrivate Markets 700: The global investor barometer - An era of expanding possibilities
Private markets are entering an era of expanding possibilities. Our latest Private Markets 700 research - drawing on the views of more than 700 institutional investors worldwide - reveals that investors are asking for more from their private markets portfolios, tasking them with delivering on a wider set of objectives than ever before.
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White papersCan infrastructure weather the next storm?
Infrastructure has generally shown resilience in economic slowdowns, and through proprietary risk management and diversified exposure across defensive and cyclical sub-sectors, it potentially offers investors meaningful downside protection and attractive long-term risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersPower Play: The Emerging Powered Land Opportunity
Hines Research estimates that 40,000 acres of powered land—almost 2 billion square feet— are needed to support current projections for data center growth over the next five years. Understanding where specific pockets of opportunity are likely to emerge next is critical.
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VideoGlobal REITs Update – Q2 2025
In our video update for the 2nd quarter of the 2025 calendar year, Chief Investment Officer, Andrew Parsons covers key developments in the Global REIT sector and market insights, including:
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White papersAlternative opportunities 2025: outlook and methodology | USD | Q2 update
We remain neutral on how we’re allocating risk within our alternatives portfolio due to elevated downside growth risks, high equity valuations, and benign capital markets activity. In general, we’re more defensive, favoring private debt and hedged strategies versus private equity.
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White papersSchroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens Q3 2025: your go-to guide to global property markets
Improvements in pricing, valuations and deal activity are evident but have moderated given geopolitical uncertainties.
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White papersSingle-sector real estate funds outperform in Europe
Single-sector European real estate funds outperformed diversified peers in 2Q25, with income driving returns and Europe forecast to outpace the U.S. in 2025.
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White papersTop 5 reasons to consider an allocation exposure to direct real estate
Investors today are re-evaluating risk and reward in their portfolios. Real estate can fulfill a need for stability, diversification, performance, and yield, in a world starved of income.
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White papersCross-border capital investment across global commercial real estate markets
While the majority of global real estate transactions in the most liquid real estate markets are by domestic investors, cross-border capital flows where the capital source isn’t the same country as the asset purchased, are also significant. Due to the recent shift in US tariff policy, cross-border investments into the US are being delayed or deferred. Since the US is the largest global commercial real estate (CRE) market, accounting for 38% of global transaction activity in the past 10 years, if capital flows are reallocated away from the US, how might this impact other key global real estate markets? (We also look at the implications on US commercial real estate liquidity and pricing in our companion piece, “Cross-border capital investment in U.S. commercial real estate”.)
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Research ReportPrivate Insights #8 - Navigating the Trade Tariffs Conundrum
“Over the past 25 years, Mapletree has built up a geographically diversified, multi-sector real estate portfolio with strong on-the-ground presence, which positions us well to ride out current macroeconomic volatility. Our quality asset base, operational efficiency and financial discipline provide the resilience and adaptability needed in today’s markets, amid rapidly evolving dynamics due to trade tariffs and shifts in tenantneeds and preferences.” - Mr Hiew Yoon Khong, Group CEO
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White papersPrivate Markets Investment Outlook Q3 2025: How to navigate uncertainty
Amid persistent uncertainty related to ongoing trade and geopolitical tensions, the return and resilience potential of private markets, driven by a combination of structural and cyclical factors, has arguably never been more valuable for investors – but selectivity and diversification remain key.
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White papersScaling for success: creating value in mid-market infrastructure
In the mid-market infrastructure market, scaling a business into a fully functional institutional platform and capturing the associated scale premium are powerful drivers of value at exit. Among value-add approaches, buy-and-build can unlock significant growth. Over the past decade, InfraVia has consistently scaled platforms through a balanced combination of organic growth (CAPEX) and acquisition-led expansion (M&A).
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White papersTimber’s tipping point: why global demand is set to outpace supply by 2050 according to Gresham House analysis
The ongoing increase in Greenhouse Gas emissions from human activities since the industrial revolution is a major contributor to climate change and rising global temperatures; average global temperatures have risen by 1.2°C according to The National Centre for Atmospheric Science, 2025. There is a strong global consensus that urgent and extensive action is needed, both to limit future warming and to adapt to a changing world to reduce the impact of climate change.
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White papersThe evolution of Real Assets and the key to overcoming growing complexity
Real assets fund managers are pursuing ambitious growth targets the coming years to stay ahead of competitors in today’s market, however, they are also facing increasing complexity in their operations and reporting requirements to support such growth ambitions.
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White papersTargeted investment: Untangling the building and the grid
Integrating the right metrics into the investment process can help to effectively promote sustainability and boost returns.
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White papersKeep calm and carry on? The ISA Outlook 2025, six months in
In a recent conversation, Dominic Silman and Brian Klinksiek revisited LaSalle’s ISA Outlook themes amid 2025’s rapidly developing and unpredictable geopolitical and macroeconomic climate.
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White papersQ&A with Global CEO Mark Gabbay
Real estate: The world’s simplest, most complicated asset class
