All articles by Richard Lowe – Page 9
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Greater Manchester PF and Homes England to fund housebuilders
Pension fund among investors in vehicle providing long-term debt for smaller developers
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Merseyside Pension Fund ups funding of Liverpool heat network
Pension scheme provides £20m facility via Catalyst Fund for Liverpool Waters regeneration project
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AXA IM reorganises €188bn alternative investments arm
Five devolved business lines created, including real estate, infrastructure and natural capital
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IPE RA Conference: Investors look to infra’s ESG and inflation potential
Results of IPE investor survey revealed at conference in Munich
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IPE RA Conference: Is nuclear back on the agenda for investors?
Speakers and delegates in Germany debate the case for including technology in energy transition
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Analysis
IPE Real Assets September/October 2022: Infrastructure faces its next test
Among other attributes, infrastructure has always been billed as an asset class that can provide a stabilising influence on portfolios at times of volatility, disconnected from the swings of the public markets and – in many cases – economic cycles. This selling point was tested during the pandemic. Putting to one side the disruption to transport assets, which have subsequently recovered, it largely passed.
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Top 100 Infrastructure Investors 2022: Survey
After passing the COVID test, investors bet on infrastructure to help build immunity to inflation and reach net zero. Richard Lowe reports
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Top 100 Infrastructure Investors 2022: Case studies
We talked to five of the top 100 about their allocations, strategies and the implications of inflation, war and climate change
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Analysis
Analysis: Real estate investors pause and reassess global markets
Transactions volumes and return expectations fall as market enters ‘price discovery’ mode
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Interviews
Interview: Stefan Mächler, Swiss Life Asset Managers
The €80bn real estate manager is on the path to net zero and is targeting energy-as-a-service
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UK government urged to unlock billions of pounds through Solvency II reforms
BPF, AREF, INREV and IPF call for new methodology to calculate real estate risk and volatility
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Net zero: How EBRD’s HQ went from core investment to value-add project
Ten years after PNB bought One Exchange Square, the 1980s building is being overhauled
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Analysis
Analysis: MSCI’s long-awaited global property index could be well timed
Quarterly valuation index arrives 10 years after IPD acquisition and should complement RCA indices
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Hines announces 2040 net-zero carbon target for $90bn portfolio
Major global real estate firms join growing list of fund managers setting decarbonisation objectives
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Q&A: Elisabeth Hermann Frederiksen, NREP
The Nordic real estate fund manager has set itself particularly ambitions net-zero targets
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Tip 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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Q&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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Analysis
IPE 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.
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Top 100 infrastructure investment managers 2022
The 100 largest infrastructure investment managers, led by Macquarie Asset Management and Brookfield Asset Management, manage more than €1.65trn in assets.
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KGAL gets green light for three large-scale solar PV projects in Italy
Part of wider programme to develop Italian renewables on behalf of ESPF 4 and ESPF 5 funds