All United States articles – Page 57
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Taxable U.S. municipal bonds make sense for non-U.S. investors
As global investors continue to face falling, low, and negative interest rates, the need for alternative investments to enhance portfolio returns and performance has heightened.
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European Real Estate Quarterly: Q1 2016
Towards the end of 2015 and into Q1 2016 there have been an increasing number of commentators speculating that the world economy is on the cusp of a new recession, triggered by slowing emerging market economies.
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Global cities: Superior returns in top cities
The world is moving away from sovereign borders and is becoming defined by economically powerful global cities.
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Global Economic Overview: Spring 2016
The world economy stumbled in 2015, amid weak aggregate demand, falling commodity prices and increasing economic volatility in major countries. The world GDP grew by 3.1% vs. 3.4% in 2014.
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End of the golden age
Traditional investment strategies based on the norms of the last thirty years will struggle to deliver the outcomes desired in a new era of lower growth and poorer returns.
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Automation and Real Estate – the rise of the machines
This paper considers the impact of computing and robotics advances on the workforce and how this will influence real estate markets.
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Perspective: Global Volatility, The Real Economy, and Real Estate
Bouts of financial market volatility likely to return
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Principal Real Estate Investors Honored by EPA as a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Principal Real Estate Investors with a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Energy Management Award for its outstanding efforts to improve the energy efficiency of U.S. buildings and facilities through its actions.
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Time to Re-load? Current High Yield Bond Prices Present Long-Term Value
Global risk markets have been under pressure lately due to a confluence of factors—weakness in China and other global economies, plunging oil and commodity prices, and the onset of the removal of monetary accommodation by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Global high yield multi-credit strategies: Finding sense in a nonsensical world
With 40% or more of the Eurozone sovereign debt market offering negative yields, a new investor to the global debt markets may well be thinking he has wandered into the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
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Market Report: Aviation H1 2016
Continuous growth and oil prices at their lowest level since 2004 are creating an encouraging climate for the aviation sector.
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Real Estate Stocks: Not as vulnerable to rising rates as many believe
On December 16th the Federal Reserve (Fed) finally acted.
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Global Real Estate Securities – 2015 Performance Review and 2016 Market Outlook
2015 was a challenging year for the broader markets overall as macro-economic and political events dominated news headlines causing lackluster investment performance across most asset classes around the world. The collapse in oil prices (-30.5%) played havoc on countries and currencies reliant on energy exports.
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Key risks for global real estate in 2016
Aided by extremely loose global monetary policy, capital values have experienced a strong recovery since the crisis. We believe this period of very strong capital growth has largely run its course and the window to capture significant yield compression is passing quickly, says Sandip Bhalsod.
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Global Core Pricing
Given varying dynamics in the three major regions regarding commercial real estate pricing, it is easier to speak at the individual region level.
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US Economic Outlook: Q3 2015
The US economy continued to lumber forward in Q3, as evidenced by the just-released GDP reading of 1.5% growth on an annualized basis.
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GTIS Partners Taps Team for U.S. Investment Expansion
Three Veteran Real Estate Investors to Focus on Commercial Acquisitions
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Pension Risk Transfer Gains Momentum in a Low Interest-Rate Environment
The pension risk transfer space continues to proliferate, with plan sponsors from an array of market sectors, firm sizes and geographical locations proactively transferring pension risk to insurance companies.
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New home sales jump 5.4% in July to 507K
Sales of new single-family houses in July 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 507,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
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US Economic Outlook: Q2 2015
July’s economic data for the US, to a large extent, represented more of the same with some mixed economic news.