All articles by Christopher Walker – Page 6
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MagazineSocial infrastructure: Asset class on the rise
Investors are looking to increase their exposure to social infrastructure, but the sector is complex and requires a careful approach, writes Christopher Walker
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Special ReportsForest Investment Associates: ‘most exciting time’ for sustainable forestry
Mike Cerchiaro tells Christopher Walker that the asset class has never been in such demand
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Special ReportsOntario Teachers: A decade in building natural resources exposure
Christopher Metrakos explains the Canadian giant’s natural capital strategy to Christopher Walker
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Special ReportsCDPQ: Quebec investor pursues sustainable land strategy
Nicolas Leyssieux tells Christopher Walker about CDPQ’s plans to invest C$2bn by 2025
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AnalysisReal 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
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AnalysisReal estate 2024 outlook (part one): Things can only get better?
It has been a year to forget for investors. Christopher Walker reviews what 2023 means for real estate markets in 2024
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AnalysisCOP28 reaction: A ‘shuffle’ rather than a step forward
Investors read between the lines of ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems’
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InterviewsLocal Pensions Partnership Investments: The benefits of scale in action
LPPI was formed in 2016 to help aggregate local authority pension fund money. Today, it manages some £5bn in infrastructure
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Special ReportsOpportunistic real estate: An avenue of growth for fund managers?
As interest rates and repricing weigh on fundraising and AUMs, the industry looks to opportunistic real estate as a potential way to grow AUM. Christopher Walker reports
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Special ReportsUBS-Credit suisse merger: Scaling Switzerland’s new mountain
The takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS could see the creation of the fourth-largest real estate investment manager. Richard Lowe and Christopher Walker report
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NewsUK government increases offshore wind development price cap by 66%
GIIA welcomes ‘first step towards restoring the confidence of international investors’
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AnalysisAnalysis: WeWork hands in its resignation
What does this week’s bankruptcy mean for landlords and flexible office competitors?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Has wind power peaked for institutional investors?
Turbine developers battle financial headwinds and investors face lower returns
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AnalysisAnalysis: UK govt advised to attract more private infrastructure investment
National Infrastructure Assessment published two weeks after HS2 U-turn
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AnalysisHS2: UK’s major infrastructure U-turn dismays global institutional investors
Real assets investors respond to the scrapping of the UK’s high-speed rail extension
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Special ReportsFrankfurt offices: Wo sind die Arbeiter?
Workers are not returning to Frankfurt offices as much as expected, and the city faces an obsolescence problem. Christopher Walker reports
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InterviewsJohn Phillips, GIIA: Navigate with ‘sensitivity and awareness’
Jon Phillips tells Christopher Walker why the infrastructure investment industry needs to tread carefully amid rising economic, political and environmental pressures
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Special ReportsLondon offices: Downsizing the Big Smoke
With high-profile occupiers cutting space and commuters showing up three days a week, is London’s office market set for a major reset? Christopher Walker reports
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AnalysisThames Water: Lessons of reputational risk for pension funds?
Institutional investors might change their perceptions of such ‘safe investments’ in the future
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AnalysisThames Water: Private equity model was allowed to ‘outflank the regulator’
Did the Ofwat’s approach encourage investors to increase leverage and reduce investment?
