All Real Assets articles in November 2008 (Magazine)
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MagazineTime to apply the brakes?
Fund launches and equity raises continued at a fair pace in the third quarter of 2008, but investors may now be holding back until more certainty returns, as Richard Lowe reports
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In perspective
Understanding the unpredictability of the future is as important as learning from the past when facing global market upheaval. This was one of the messages at this year’s annual EPRA conference.
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Crisis of confidence
The Pension Fund Real Estate Association’s 18th Annual Plan Sponsor Conference, held in Chicago, could not have taken place at a more uncertain time. Richard Lowe reports from what felt like the eye of the storm
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MagazineHealth-giving properties
In a downturn the secure income of healthcare makes it an attractive option for investors but beware political risk, as Christine Senior reports
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MagazineEmerging opportunities
Parts of Asia, particularly at the more developed end, have been hit hard by the downturn. Elsewhere, the economic turmoil is throwing up new possibilities, as Kristen Paech reports
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MagazineVastly varied
Urbanisation, rising home ownership and ageing populations are strong themes across much of Asia. Another is the huge diversity of performance across the markets of this huge and eclectic continent. These are among the findings of the RICS’s first annual Asian housing market review as Stephen Brown reports
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MagazinePotential unfulfilled
If German real estate is an interesting investment story, how do we access it? German Special Funds, Luxemburg Special Funds, G-REITs – a structural comparison for the foreign investor is provided by Thomas Gütle
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MagazineBoring becomes interesting again
German real estate is often described as an unexciting, stable core market. But with the market correcting, investors are now seeing it as an opportunity. Barbara Ottawa reports
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MagazineBetter together
The German Property Federation is one of Europe’s younger real estate trade associations, having been set up just two and a half years ago.
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MagazineGo further
Led by retail, Turkey’s investment potential is growing fast but increasingly investors will have to look well beyond Istanbul for the best opportunities, Ermina Topintzi finds
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MagazineHere comes the sun
Could infrastructure be the silver lining in the tumult that is the global financial crisis? Ian Cundell explores the opportunities for investors at a time when traditional asset classes are clouded in pessimism
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Close to home
‘We can’t buy an airport,’ KBC’s Edwin Meysmans tells Shayla Walmsley. It seems European infrastructure funds are the next best thing
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MagazineLook and learn
Working alongside fund managers allows pension schemes to build up in-house infrastructure expertise, APG’s Robbert Coomans tells Shayla Walmsley
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MagazineThe ‘raspberry ripple’ effect
There is no shortage of pension schemes looking to invest in infrastructure, so where are the funds to meet the demand? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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MagazineComing of age
Infrastructure is considered by some as a subset of real estate, and by others as part of their private equity allocation or ‘alternatives’ bucket. Christine Senior looks at how increasingly investors treat it as a asset class in its own right
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On the right path?
A dearth of data on the risk-return profile of infrastructure is leaving investors with more questions than answers in assessing this diverse investment class, says Georg Inderst
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MagazineFilling the void
The absence of an unlisted index has been one of the biggest obstacles for institutions wishing to invest in infrastructure. But this will not be the case for very long, says Richard Lowe
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MagazineBaby boomer or enfant terrible?
Infrastructure is still a young asset class, but it has the potential to grow bigger than private equity or even real estate. First, though, it must attract sceptical investors Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineOpportunity knocked?
In difficult times there is usually no shortage of predatory funds waiting to snap up a distress sell or to spot a niche opportunity. But with liquidity all but dried up, Mark Faithfull asks: is there anyone lending?
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MagazineThe price is right?
The fund of funds sector is growing and attracting a wider range of investors. But, as Richard Lowe discovers, the issue of cost and how this affects performance concerns pension funds
