All Real Assets articles in July/August 2022 (Magazine)
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InterviewsQ&A: Instant Group flexes its new muscles
Digital flexible-workspace platform Instant Group has merged with the world’s largest workspace provider, IWG. Instant Group CEO Tim Rodber (pictured) talks to Vanessa Drucker about his hopes for the partnership
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MagazineFood security: Can investors feed the world?
The Ukrainian conflict is causing chaos, but it could also accelerate the growth of sustainable farming. Christopher Walker reports
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Operational real estate in the right hands
It comes with new risks, but in the right hands operational real estate can deliver real rewards, argue Matt Soffair and Mike Adefuye
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Leveraging renewables in the new environment
Rising interest rates are making the financing of leveraged renewable-energy projects more expensive, writes Michael Ebner
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Special ReportsQ&A: Elisabeth Hermann Frederiksen, NREP
The Nordic real estate fund manager has set itself particularly ambitions net-zero targets
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Special ReportsNet zero and life-science real estate: Easier said than done
Investors are piling into the burgeoning life-science real estate sector, but they might have underestimated the net-zero challenge involved, writes Gary Clark
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Special ReportsForestry: A critical role in the race to reach net zero
The asset class is attractive for both traditional investments and carbon offsetting, writes Florence Chong
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Special ReportsThe technology fighting climate risk
A new tool offers the ability to assess how exposed a country’s infrastructure is to climate change – and how investors can help, writes Christopher Walker
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Special ReportsTip of the iceberg: the true scale of the net-zero challenge for real estate
The full cost of net-zero targets are only beginning to dawn on investors and managers, writes Richard Lowe
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MagazineLogistics: ‘Just in time’ to ‘just in case’
A pandemic, a war, overly-complex supply chains and a series of macro-shocks have raised the question whether manufacture and the end-consumer need to be brought closer. Mark Faithfull reports.
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InterviewsInterview: Rainer Komenda, BVK
Germany’s largest pension fund has turned its attention to the Americas and Asia for growth in real estate
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AnalysisInflation will reveal weaknesses in real estate assets
Real estate is widely regarded as a hedge against inflation, which is running at a 40-year high. Residential investments seem set to outperform the rest, finds Lauren Mills
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MagazineRetail Asia-Pacific: What’s in store?
Retail real estate across Asia-Pacific is adapting to a new post-pandemic, post-e-commerce world. Florence Chong reports
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MagazineLogistics: Amazon pivots from space to innovation
The logistics giant is reducing its use of large fulfilment centres in the US and has redirected some of its investment. Mark Faithfull asks what this means for investors
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MagazineRetail US: Not all assets are created equal
Retail is not dead, but today investors have to negotiate the various nuances to be successful in the sector. Vanessa Drucker reports
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InterviewsRetail Europe: Could the sector be an investment star again?
As the beleaguered retail sector emerges from COVID-19, is now the time to buy retail? Mark Faithfull speaks to three investors
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Special ReportsQ&A: Sarah Ratcliffe and Adam Smith, Better Buildings Partnership
Richard Lowe talks to Sarah Ratcliffe and Adam Smith about developing the UK’s first Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard
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Special ReportsAchieving energy security and net zero
Will the renewed focus on energy security jeopardise Europe’s net-zero carbon agenda? Not necessarily, according to investors. Christopher Walker reports
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InterviewsESR: The 21st century’s railroaders
ESR is by far Asia-Pacific’s largest logistic investment platform. Florence Chong speaks to chairman Jeffrey Perlman
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AnalysisIPE Real Assets July/August 2022: The net-zero marathon has started
There is a race on, and everyone must take part. But no one yet knows the course or the difficulty of the terrain.
