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MagazineNet-zero: Infrastructure fund managers take first steps to net zero
Infrastructure fund managers are beginning to take action to hit net-zero targets. But the full path to 2050 is of yet unclear, writes Elisabeth Jeffries
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MagazineESG: Don’t forget physical climate risk for real estate
Christopher Walker asks, with the rush into net zero, are real estate investors in danger of being caught out by physical climate risk?
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MagazineRenewables: Investors need to do more than just build
If renewables are to provide nearly all the world’s energy, investors need to innovate. Florence Chong reports
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MagazineForestry: Investors converge on the asset class for different reasons
Investors are homing in on forestry and timberland markets – but for different reasons. Florence Chong reports
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MagazineAffordable housing Europe: Should investors be part of the solution?
Affordable housing comes with many challenges, but this is not a good reason for institutions to sit out the opportunity. Maha Khan Phillips reports
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Special ReportsTransport: Roads to recovery
The pandemic hit transport assets hard in 2020, but a revival of varying speeds is now underway. In this report we look at the outlooks for airports, aircraft leasing, toll roads, ports and shipping, rail, and electric-vehicle infrastructure
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: The growing appeal of listed infrastructure
The attributes of listed infrastructure make it an attractive investment in a period of rising inflation, say Anish Butani and Gerald Wu
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Special ReportsGlobal office markets: outlook for gateway cities
COVID-19 has disrupted office markets around the world and accelerated trends that were already in place. But, today, cities face different levels of occupancy, remote working, pandemic restrictions, and vaccination and case rates.
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MagazineAsia-Pacific REITs: Proliferation across the region
Asia-Pacific is home to a proliferation of new REITs. Florence Chong explores what is happening
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News
Welcome; Chairman’s Introduction; Opening Address: Jens Kramer Mikkelsen
Session One, 09:15 - 10:35 - Thursday, 16 September 2021
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Special ReportsLogistics: Global boom proves sustainable
The world is witnessing a synchronised shortage of modern logistics space – with prices of prime logistics assets spiralling upwards, and rents growing sharply in key markets across the globe. Open cheque books and boundless optimism are the order of the day. We report on the never-ending logistics boom and take a close look at the latest developments affecting the sector in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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MagazineMarket report: Retail
As the world tentatively reopens, we report on how the true scale of retail Armageddon is becoming apparent. Retail was traditionally the second-largest component after offices in core institutional real estate portfolios. In recent years, investors and fund managers have been striving to reduce that heavy retail weighting, often in favour of logistics, residential and some alternative property sectors, as we analyse in this report.
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News
The global outlook for sustainable infrastructure Investment with Greg Medcraft, OECD
18 May 2021 - 08-45 - 09-25
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Special ReportsTop 100 Real Estate Investors 2021
This year’s real estate survey shows investors holding firm with their pre-pandemic allocations and strategies. Richard Lowe & Rachel Fixsen report
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Special ReportsHealthcare & life sciences
The healthcare and life-sciences real estate sectors are booming. Such is the need for specialist space from life-sciences companies, real estate investors are racing to keep up with demand. In this report, we look at how investment and innovation during the pandemic have been transforming these industries and explore what this means for the real assets investors globally.
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Special ReportsMarket report: Student housing
COVID-19 has created a previously unforeseen fault line in the global student-housing market. On one side of the divide are countries with a deep domestic student market, such as the US, where the recent disruption has barely affected operations. On the other side are countries reliant on international students, such as Australia, where student-housing operators are struggling to stay afloat, as we analyse in this report.
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MagazineReal assets multi-managers innovate for smaller investors
Smaller investors risk being squeezed out of increasingly competitive real assets markets, but investment managers are coming up with solutions. Richard Lowe reports
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Special ReportsTechnology: Data demand drives digital infrastructure boom
There is no doubt that we are all spending more time in front of screens and COVID-19 lockdowns have only intensified this trend. The implications have not been lost on institutional investors. This report looks at the growth in data centres, perhaps one of the best examples of a real asset that sits squarely in the concentric circles of real estate and infrastructure. We also assess investment opportunities in other technology sectors including fibre networks, 5G and hydrogen technology, and analyse how technology is impacting the logistics and office sectors.
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Special ReportsInvestment: Private debt
Private debt has been increasingly sought after by pension funds and other institutional investors and the arguments for including real estate and infrastructure in private-debt allocations appear to be strong. In this report, we analyse why institutional investors are increasing allocation to real assets private debt. We also look at current opportunities in US real estate debt, and find out why infrastructure debt funds have continued to grow despite the pandemic.
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Special ReportsNet zero: Real assets at the heart of investor efforts to decarbonise
Pension funds have set their sights on achieving net zero and real assets are central to their efforts. Rachel Fixsen reports
