
Richard Lowe
Richard Lowe is editor of IPE Real Assets, overseeing all editorial content and direction of the publication. He took on the role in 2011 and has since then expanded the focus of the magazine from real estate markets to include other real assets such as infrastructure, agriculture and forestry.
Richard has contributed to IPE Real Assets since 2007, as a features writer, deputy editor and freelance journalist. As a freelancer, he has written for a number of real estate and pension titles.
He also worked previously as a features writer and features editor of Professional Pensions. His career in journalism started in 2001 as a features writer at the Bristol Evening Post newspaper.
Outside of work, Richard enjoys music and being a dad to two young sons.
Contact info
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 3465 9323
- Email:
- richard.lowe@ipe.com
- News
Prime European real estate requires 19bps of annual capex reserve – AEW
Research by fund manager combines transition and physical climate risks to calculate premium
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Investors target infrastructure for inflation protection and net zero
Cost-of-living crisis raises concerns over political/regulatory risks, survey and conference suggests
- Magazine
IPE Real Assets September/October 2023: A new trajectory
The total infrastructure assets held by the 100 largest institutional investors has doubled from US$360m to US$722bn over the six years that IPE Real Assets has been tracking them.
- Magazine
Top 100 Infrastructure Investors 2023: Survey
Recent strong growth in allocations and investment appetite might be slowing, but investors are not yet applying the brakes to the asset class. Richard Lowe reports
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APG launches CRREM-compliant listed property index for Dutch pension funds
Dutch investment manager creates passive solution to filter out poorly performing listed stocks
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Macquarie injects £550m into Southern Water to maintain turnaround plan
Majority owner recapitalises UK utility company amid high inflation and interest rates
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Climate change could halve value of infrastructure, EDHEC warns regulators
Open letter to EIOPA sets out how physical risk could threaten EU pension portfolios
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Japan’s government pension fund invests $500m in Blackstone real estate fund
GPIF, which now has ¥919bn real estate portfolio, among global investors in $30bn capital raise
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Launch of $400bn global property index reveals negative returns in Q1
ANREV, INREV and NCREIF combine regional ODCE indices for the first time
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IPE Real Assets July/August 2023: Move with the times
Landsec, a listed real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of offices in the UK, is currently developing what it intends to become a complex of offices, housing and retail in London’s Southwark, an area south of the Thames, opposite The City.
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Generation IM raises $1.5bn from pension funds for Just Climate net-zero strategy
CalSTRS, PSP Investments, AP4 and AP2 among investors joining fund to reduce carbon emissions
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Oxford Economics predicts further falls in UK real estate as inflation persists
Modest recovery in values in March and April expected to be a ‘temporary reprieve’
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Real estate industry proposes solutions for problematic SFDR regulations
Working group comprising INREV, AREF and IPF publish SFDR Real Estate Solutions Paper
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IPE Real Estate Global Conference: Investors play waiting game and look to debt markets
Investors await refinancing opportunity as more than 400 delegates convene in Milan
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Swiss Life AM targets UK real estate as it rebrands Mayfair Capital
Insurer-owned investment manager ‘sees scope for increasing capital commitments’
- Magazine
IPE Real Assets May/June 2023: Investors sit out the market
Are institutional real estate investors on the sidelines? The latest numbers from MSCI Real Assets would suggest so. US commercial real estate transactions in the third quarter of this year fell by 56% relative to Q1 2022. Sales of office properties were the weakest since 2010.
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Top 150 Real Estate Investors 2023: Survey
The long-running trend of rising investment levels finally comes to a close. Richard Lowe reports
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Top 150 Real Estate Investors 2023: Case studies
While some investors apply the brakes amid rising rates and denominator effect, others hope to take advantage. Richard Lowe reports
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UK government consults on creation of ‘reserved investor fund’
Proposed onshore, closed-ended structure could compete with the likes of Luxembourg RAIF