All Switzerland articles
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White papersReal Estate House View: Switzerland - Second half-year 2024
The second kev interest rate cut by the SNB in June will enable the downward trend in debt financing costs to continue, although we are not expecting any further cut in interest rates before the end of 2024.
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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 papersBasel III Endgame and the “Reg Cap” Opportunity
Tighter bank capital regulation looks set to make U.S. banks adopt a risk-transfer practice that has long been common in Europe—and attractive to investors.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition May 2024 Stability through strong fundamentals
SNB initiates interest rate turnaround, brightening of economic conditions expected in 2H24
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White papersPassion for real estate and portfolio management: Top 10 interview with Dalibor Maksimovic
Indirect Swiss real estate investment has become increasingly recognized as an efficient instrument for diversification and resilience throughout various economic scenarios, despite starting off as a niche portfolio holding over 15 years ago.
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People NewsThe WHO’s WHO of Swiss real estate 2024
Dalibor Maksimovic, Head of Swiss Real Estate Securities has once again been recognized in the 100 leading personalities of the Swiss real estate industry 2024. He joins Daniel Bruellmann, Head of Real Estate DACH and Urs Faes, Head Real Estate Funds of the Swiss real estate business, who were also selected for another year. The WHO’s WHO of the Swiss real estate industry is traditionally selected in July by the magazine Immobilien Business – Switzerland’s leading real estate magazine.
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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 papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition 1H24
User markets support Swiss real estate values
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White papersFiorino: Where physics meets finance
Fiorino visits Switzerland to uncover the hidden links between the most successful particle physics theory to date and the ongoing Basel bank capital risk management experiment (now in version IV)…
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White papersSwiss bonds: out of the comfort zone
When it comes to asset allocation, many investors rely on passive and low-cost building blocks, justifying this with the cliche that active approaches do not fulfill their promise anyway and have exorbitant fees.
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White papersWhat’s next for the Swiss economy?
Inflation is slowing in Switzerland but the economy remains subject to a great degree of uncertainty. What does the latest Swiss National Bank policy meeting tell us about the outlook?
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White papersSwiss credit: approximating bond returns
What ingredients go into calculating expected bond returns? Quite a few it turns out. Using a practitioner’s method, we outline one approach to approximating returns for bonds and bond portfolios.
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White papersReal Estate House View - Switzerland, Second half-year 2023
With the rate hike cycle winding down, an end to rising real estate yields is also in sight.
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Asset Manager NewsThe Who’s Who of real estate 2023
Media votes UBS managers to leading personalities in Swiss real estate
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White papersAppraising Swiss bonds: what does price tell us?
Unlike equity prices, bond prices usually depend on elements beyond the fundamental valuation of the underlying entity. In fact, the price on its own typically says little.
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White papersSwiss inflation target signals more tightening
Following the Swiss National Bank’s latest monetary policy meeting, we consider the inflation backdrop in Switzerland and explore factors that argued against a larger hike.
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White papersA better ‘airbag’ makes CHF bonds attractive
The first half of 2022 showed that even safe CHF bonds are not immune from painful losses. After many years of excellent performance, the portfolio with all Swiss bonds, for example, did about as poorly as Swiss equities.
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White papersMore Swiss policy tightening, but how?
Concluding seven years of negative interest rates, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) tightened monetary policy at its September meeting, warned that further rate increase could be necessary and joined other global central banks in foreseeing significant risks to the global economy. Lifting base rates by 75bps to 0.50%, the bank also raised its inflation forecasts and unveiled measures to manage excess liquidity.
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White papersSwiss real estate in an inflationary environment
After decades of continuous low inflation levels, real estate investors are experiencing an environment of elevated consumer price growth all around the world. In this publication, we underline our inflation and interest rate expectations and discuss the potential implications of this complex macroeconomic environment for the performance of Swiss real estate investments.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition 1H22
Investor demand for Swiss property remains strong despite the uncertain macroeconomic environment. We expect the future increase of the Swiss interest rate environment to be gradual. Swiss property investments are likely to remain an attractive alternative to a still low yielding bond market.
