IPE Real Assets Special Reports
Browse the latest rankings of investors and managers for the real estate and infrastructure sectors, plus all IPE Real Assets’ special reports on essential industry topics
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Special ReportsAP2: Nature as a cross-cutting financial factor
AP2 has embedded natural capital across its entire portfolio, using it to underpin its strategy for risk management, due diligence and engagement with investee companies
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Special ReportsNatural capital comes of age
Beyond forestry and farms: Investors increasingly recognise the potential for positive environmental and social impact alongside financial return
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Special ReportsGRESB in an age of ‘green hushing’
Christopher Walker talks to GRESB about managing and developing a sustainability benchmark during a time of shifting sentiments towards ESG
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Special ReportsBNP Paribas AM: A story of organic and inorganic growth
BNP Paribas Asset Management enters the top 20 following the merger of two growing natural capital investment platforms
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Special ReportsBCI: A long-view, cycle-led approach to natural capital
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) has been active in the natural capital space for two decades with an approach focused on long-term stewardship, cycle-aware deployment and respect for local realities
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Special ReportsUK institutional investors embrace a new nature-based asset class
Lauren Mills explores the growing concept of ‘nature as infrastructure’
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Special ReportsPhysical climate risk moves centre stage for real assets
Once the preserve of insurers and climate modelling specialists, physical risk analysis is fast becoming embedded in institutional investors’ acquisition, underwriting and asset management processes.
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Special ReportsCampbell Global: Extracting value from every timber fibre
Campbell Global has doubled its assets under supervision over the past four years, in a sign that timberland has come of age
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Special ReportsOxygen Conservation: Poised for a step change
Oxygen Conservation is convinced that buying land for large-scale nature restoration is on the verge of a golden age as institutional investors discover the opportunity
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Special ReportsThe nuclear comeback and its role in energy transition strategies
Nuclear is suddenly back in vogue, but can – and should – it play a role in institutional portfolios? Christopher Walker reports
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Special ReportsKeeping on track with energy transition infrastructure
Investment in clean-energy infrastructure is going strong, but staying on the path to net zero could be tricky, finds Christopher Walker
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Special ReportsESG under pressure
Christopher Walker examines the weight of factors bearing down on sustainability in real assets
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Special ReportsIs the race to net zero in real estate stalling?
Christopher Walker looks at the growing challenge of maintaining decarbonisation trajectory
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Special ReportsCan you measure real estate's ‘social value’?
Real estate investors are beginning to account for the social value of their projects, including through construction supply chains. Virna Asara reports
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Special ReportsSFDR reforms: Is Europe going soft on regulation?
Europe is looking to shake its image as the world’s most enthusiastic regulator. Christopher Walker explores what this means for real assets investors
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Special ReportsUniSuper: Keeping faith in forestry’s long game
UniSuper’s investment in one of Australia’s largest hardwood plantation estates is a sign of renewed confidence in timberland’s long-term resilience
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Special ReportsNEST: Sticking with timberland – for now
NEST made a deliberate move into timberland just over a year ago, and while geographic expansion is on the cards, the UK pension fund is not considering other natural capital assets for the time being
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Special ReportsTop 10 real estate investment managers: Industrial
ESR leads with €107bn in assets globally
