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Top 150 Real Estate Investors 2026: Total assets return to growth at $2.18trn
The IPE Real Assets top 150 ranking of some of the world’s largest real estate investors has captured US$2.18trn (€1.86trn) in property assets held by pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers and other institutional capital owners
Future of capital: The great private markets pivot to wealth and retail
Real assets investment managers have been scrambling to capture private wealth. But where, asks Christopher Walker, has that left institutional investors?
Student housing: Supplying a $1trn global higher education industry
Higher education is booming, and student housing has a crucial role to play amid fierce competition. Christopher Walker reports
Natural capital comes of age
Beyond forestry and farms: Investors increasingly recognise the potential for positive environmental and social impact alongside financial return
ESG under pressure
Christopher Walker examines the weight of factors bearing down on sustainability in real assets
Top 150 Real Estate Investment Managers 2025: Lack of growth spurs M&A
Stagnation of AUM growth for the third year is helping to fuel a new wave of consolidation in the real estate investment management industry
Deglobalisation - Playing defence in Europe: Opportunities for real assets investors
Will European remilitarisation create opportunities for institutional investors? Christopher Walker investigates
The future of cities: what are they for, where are they going?
Christopher Walker talks to leading thinkers in the built environment about the future role of the city
Top 100 Infrastructure Investors 2025: Total assets rise 8% to $926bn
Full ranking of the largest pension, sovereign-wealth and insurance funds in the infrastructure
Top 100 Infrastructure Investment Managers 2025
Total AUM rises to €2.52trn and the top 10 consolidate their positions, writes Richard Lowe
Top 150 Real Estate Investors 2025: Survey
Uncertainty – not least from global tariffs – is holding back a full-blown return to the market. Richard Lowe reports
Power to the processors: data centre boom continues post-DeepSeek
Investors are moving beyond the ‘DeepSeek moment’ to grappling with the energy challenges of the data centre boom. Christopher Walker reports
Real estate industry must adopt AI to be competitive
Institutional investors tend to be risk averse, but as Pirkko Juntunen finds, pension funds and asset managers must embrace AI to avoid increasing costs and decreasing returns
Tech and the city: AI and growing urban competition for talent
How are cities harnessing AI to win the race for tech-forward businesses and talent? Isobel Lee investigates
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