All articles by Richard Lowe
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AnalysisIPE RA Asset Owners Briefing: All change at the Maple 8
Infrastructure gains, real estate challenges prompting leadership exits, rebrands
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NewsOntario Teachers sells stakes in UK airports to Macquarie
Canadian pension fund divests interests in Bristol, Birmingham and London City
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NewsSentiment towards European real estate falls despite improving performance
INREV cites ‘disconnect’ between investor sentiment and fund performance
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AnalysisIPE Real Estate Conference: Can Europe act as a global safe haven?
Live poll in Copenhagen suggests real estate investors reallocating away from US
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Special ReportsBorder to Coast Pensions: Gaining scale for real estate at the right time?
The asset manager of 11 UK local authority pension funds is preparing to expand just in time for a market recovery. Richard Lowe speaks to Alistair Smith
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Special ReportsAPG’s real estate arm seeks stability in a shifting global landscape
The Netherlands’ largest pension fund is looking to invest more in real estate this year, despite geopolitical uncertainty. Richard Lowe speaks to Rutger van der Lubbe
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Opinion PiecesIPE Real Assets May/June 2025: Still waiting for a recovery
Global real estate fundraising fell off a cliff in 2023, a year characterised by major hikes in global interest rates as central banks sought to wrestle inflation under control. Last year the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank began to bring rates back down, but this was not enough to revive capital raising.
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Special ReportsTop 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
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AnalysisNatural capital – the nexus between corporate carbon and investment
Asset class is evolving fast, just as ‘corporate money is circling’, says New Forests CEO
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NewsNew Forests launches $300m fund to help Japanese corporate meet 2030 goals
Future Forests Innovation Fund will invest globally on behalf of Oji Holdings
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AnalysisMIPIM 2025: How everything is connected to data centres
Talk in Cannes was about digital infrastructure, operational risk, AI and office retrofits
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NewsMIPIM: Geopolitics and data centres dominate talk at major investor summit
Some of the world’s largest pension, insurance and sovereign wealth funds convene in France
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AnalysisGeopolitics to top the agenda at MIPIM investor discussions
Richard Lowe speaks to major institutional investors ahead of the French summit
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Opinion PiecesIPE Real Assets March/April 2025: Predicting the unpredictable
Real estate markets seemed to finally be mounting a recovery at the end of 2024. In Europe, transaction volumes reached €55.6bn in Q4, according to MSCI – the highest quarterly figure in two years.
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NewsBlackstone still positive on data centres as infrastructure business grows 34%
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners reaches $55bn in assets under management
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NewsUK government backs expansion of Heathrow Airport
Europe’s busiest airport owned by Ardian and sovereign wealth and pension funds
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Opinion PiecesIPE Real Assets January/February 2025: A year of climate and political risk?
As fires spread across the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California in early January, scientists confirmed that 2024 had been the hottest year on record
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Special ReportsTop 50 natural capital investors 2025: Fertile asset class
Total assets among the largest institutional investors grows to €76bn
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Special ReportsTop 40 natural capital investment managers 2025: Fields, forests, fast
The convergence of large timber and agriculture specialists is helping to fuel growth
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Special ReportsPGIM: From demographics to data
After calling the bottom of the market, PGIM is focusing on demographics, digitalisation, decarbonisation – and data. Richard Lowe speaks to co-CEO Cathy Marcus
