Analysis & Opinion – Page 3
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: Pension funds are ‘buying British’ through their exposure to alternatives
UK pensions have increased allocations to alternatives like real estate, private equity and infrastructure
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Guest view: Considering carbon credits? Ask these three questions first
Critics fear carbon credits could become a greenwashing tool
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Guest view: Is 2024 the year when carbon commitments impact leasing decisions at scale?
Occupiers will need to move quickly to snap up the limited low-carbon stock available
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Analysis
Analysis: What the Baltimore Bridge collapse means for real assets
Other US ports set to benefit, but local real estate and transport inflation unlikely to be affected
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Opinion Pieces
How should UK real estate managers choose between a RIF and REIT?
Melville Rodrigues considers the important choice facing UK fund managers
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Guest view: It’s time for innovation in real estate investment
Real estate fund management needs to move with the times, write Andrew Baum and Valentina Shegoyan
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Guest view: UK fund managers – seize the RIF opportunity
Melville Rodrigues welcomes the Spring Budget announcement on the reserved investor fund
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Analysis
MIPIM 2024: Infrastructure gate-crashes real estate party
Major institutional investors converge on Cannes to discuss challenges facing asset class
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: The economics of our electrical grid
Within the electrical grid, supply and demand must seamlessly coordinate
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Guest view: Prime Central London CRE investment opportunities
Opportunity to buy and retrofit underperforming properties in London has become more prevalent
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Guest view: Europe’s retail renaissance
Retail sector had to adapt amid a confluence of technological, environmental and societal secular shifts
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Analysis
Analysis: The challenge of repurposing the UK’s office landscape
The conversion of BT Tower into hotel highlights need for innovation and planning flexibility
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: How new UK policy could turn offices into thousands of new homes
Planning reform takes time and it is rarely popular to local ‘not in my back yard’ residents that are affected
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: Redefining residential investment – a data-driven future
Traditional metrics are reaching their limits in the face of the ever-evolving market
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Guest view: What do biodiversity rules mean for the real assets community?
Smaller firms may not have had the resources to prepare England’s new Biodiversity Net Gain law
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: Avoiding the allocation trap of rigid investment categories
Eduardo Monteiro, partner and co-CIO of Victory Hill Capital Partners
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Guest view: Navigating tectonic shifts in the EMEA market
Despite drawing substantial investments in real assets, managers face ever-shifting landscape, demanding adept navigation
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: Three headwinds for US commercial real estate in 2024
Sector still faces three undeniable challenges
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Opinion Pieces
Guest view: Solving real estate’s fund valuer problem
AIFMD regulations have created a liability problem for valuers, with repercussions for investors, writes Melville Rodrigues
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Analysis
Real estate 2024 outlook (part two): Interest rates, sectors and asset allocation
Outlook for real estate depends on central banks, sector differentiation and wider asset allocation forces