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Construction Is Underway On The Grant
Hines, the international real estate firm, along with investment partner MetLife Investment Management, today announced the start of construction of The Grant, a mixed-use complex of 228 luxury apartments. Hines and MetLife have partnered on numerous projects together, and The Grant marks a continuation of the two firms’ longstanding history of successful partnership.
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Why Aren’t Markets Tanking?
There’s a list of reasons that might make an investor squirm, but there may be change afoot they should watch closely.
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US-China Trade Tensions Resurface as Lockdowns Lift
As China’s economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 lockdown, other issues—such as trade tensions—have started to resurface.
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How to protect an equity portfolio with an overlay strategy in a market downturn
Dynamic risk management strategies (risk overlays) can be useful for investors. They are a means of reconciling their two main objectives: capturing the risk premia of risky assets to meet their long-term strategic goals, while still meeting short-term objectives such as limits on drawdowns or requirements for regulatory capital.[1]
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Americas Outlook - May 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has quickly translated into a severe shock for the global economy and real estate markets. Near-term indicators of performance have turned sharply downward, and the situation is fast-moving.
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Preparing Chinese Holdings for Potential US Action
Tensions between the US and China are flaring up again, but tariffs probably aren’t on the table this time. With pressure mounting on Chinese stocks listed in the US, including those widely held in emerging-market portfolios, investors need to consider how to prepare for the mounting risks.
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Hines, Invesco Real Estate and Microsoft Corp. Announce Full-Building Lease at Atlantic Yards
The Fortune 25 Company Will Create 1,500 New Jobs in Burgeoning West Midtown Office Market
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Market weekly – Riding the digital transformation with US equities
Lockdowns around the world have boosted the uptake of new technologies, speeding us into an even more digital-centric future. US equity markets offer investors access to such disruptive technology. To hear more about the opportunities, Daniel Morris, our senior investment strategist, catches up with Pam Hegarty, senior portfolio manager and equity analyst for US equities in our Boston office.
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Which U.S. cities will best weather the pandemic?
As volatility climbs across all global financial markets amid the coronavirus pandemic, investors are wondering where to turn to find opportunities. Real estate is no exception.
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Selecting survivors: an attractive entry point for US small caps
The last quarter was one of extremes and there was little – if any – discrimination between higher and lower-quality companies. Small caps were particularly affected and have declined more than larger companies, while value stocks have lost more ground to growth stocks.
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Not created equal: Surveying investments in non-investment grade U.S. corporate
Institutional investors searching for yield and current income opportunities have increased their allocations to non-investment grade corporate bonds and loans. The case for investing in these assets is clear with the 10-year Treasury under 3% and historically low rates across the yield curve. Non-investment grade U.S. corporate debt has historically produced yields in the 6-10% range or greater.
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The Duration Risk in Equities
Since early 2017 there has been a notable gap between the expected growth in future dividends and the performance of the US equity market. The value of the 10 S&P 500® annual dividend index futures contracts at the end of April were eqivalent to about 500 S&P 500® index points, to be paid between now and the end of 2030.
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Sl Green, National Pension Service Of Korea And Hines Form Joint Venture Partnership At One Madison Avenue
Manhattan’s largest office landlord, today announced that it has sold a 49.5% interest in One Madison Avenue to the National Pension Service of Korea (“NPS”) and Hines Interest LP (“Hines”). NPS and Hines have committed aggregate equity to the project totaling no less than $492.2 million. SL Green Realty Corp. and Hines will co-develop the $2.3 billion project, which will span 1.4 million rentable square feet upon completion.
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How to Invest in Equities When Guidance Disappears
The COVID-19 shutdown has prompted an unprecedented number of US companies to suspend earnings guidance. Equity investors should focus fundamental research on a wider range of outcomes instead of the overly precise game of predicting short-term estimates—especially during a period of heightened uncertainty.
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Fact-finding and Fortune-telling in U.S. Real Estate
Barings’ John Ockerbloom and Colin Gordon discuss the material consequences of COVID-19 for the real estate markets broadly as well as sector by sector—and predict how real estate portfolios may change in the years ahead.
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Invesco Real Estate Completes Atlanta Office Investment
Invesco Ltd. today announced that Invesco Real Estate, the company’s global real estate investment business, has acquired “Edison Windward” a newly-built office project in the desirable Atlanta real estate submarket of Alpharetta for an undisclosed sum on behalf of one of its separate account clients.
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Fed determined to save U.S. economy … if it can
Over the past six weeks, the Fed has relaunched virtually all of its emergency liquidity programs used during the global financial crisis and started several more, all in the name of keeping the financial system functioning and helping the U.S. economy recover once the global economic shutdown is over. It used its April meeting as a status update for how its efforts have worked thus far.
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The TALF 2.0 Opportunity in Asset Backed Securities
During the 2008 – 10 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) enabled double-digit returns from high-rated ABS. What are the prospects under TALF 2.0, part of the Fed’s COVID-19 response?
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What Plunging Oil Prices Mean for Energy Bonds
On April 20, the price of oil skidded into negative territory for the first time in history, with the May futures contract on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude hitting a low of –US$37.63 per barrel before recovering to positive levels.
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US Macro Outlook: Let’s Bend The Economic Growth Curve
Three recovery scenarios? Franklin Templeton Fixed Income discusses the implications for growth, employment, and investment.