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MagazineDriving Alternatives
During the boom property stocks on AIM performed well relative to the market generally but since the downturn started they have also seen the heaviest falls. Graeme Newell reports
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MagazineThe price is right?
The fund of funds sector is growing and attracting a wider range of investors. But, as Richard Lowe discovers, the issue of cost and how this affects performance concerns pension funds
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MagazineOpportunity knocked?
In difficult times there is usually no shortage of predatory funds waiting to snap up a distress sell or to spot a niche opportunity. But with liquidity all but dried up, Mark Faithfull asks: is there anyone lending?
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MagazineBaby boomer or enfant terrible?
Infrastructure is still a young asset class, but it has the potential to grow bigger than private equity or even real estate. First, though, it must attract sceptical investors Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineFilling the void
The absence of an unlisted index has been one of the biggest obstacles for institutions wishing to invest in infrastructure. But this will not be the case for very long, says Richard Lowe
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On the right path?
A dearth of data on the risk-return profile of infrastructure is leaving investors with more questions than answers in assessing this diverse investment class, says Georg Inderst
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MagazineComing of age
Infrastructure is considered by some as a subset of real estate, and by others as part of their private equity allocation or 鈥榓lternatives鈥� bucket. Christine Senior looks at how increasingly investors treat it as a asset class in its own right
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MagazineThe 鈥榬aspberry ripple鈥� effect
There is no shortage of pension schemes looking to invest in infrastructure, so where are the funds to meet the demand? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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MagazineLook and learn
Working alongside fund managers allows pension schemes to build up in-house infrastructure expertise, APG鈥檚 Robbert Coomans tells Shayla Walmsley
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Close to home
鈥榃e can鈥檛 buy an airport,鈥� KBC鈥檚 Edwin Meysmans tells Shayla Walmsley. It seems European infrastructure funds are the next best thing
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MagazineHere comes the sun
Could infrastructure be the silver lining in the tumult that is the global financial crisis? Ian Cundell explores the opportunities for investors at a time when traditional asset classes are clouded in pessimism
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MagazineGo further
Led by retail, Turkey鈥檚 investment potential is growing fast but increasingly investors will have to look well beyond Istanbul for the best opportunities, Ermina Topintzi finds
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MagazineBetter together
The German Property Federation is one of Europe鈥檚 younger real estate trade associations, having been set up just two and a half years ago.
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MagazineBoring becomes interesting again
German real estate is often described as an unexciting, stable core market. But with the market correcting, investors are now seeing it as an opportunity. Barbara Ottawa reports
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MagazinePotential unfulfilled
If German real estate is an interesting investment story, how do we access it? German Special Funds, Luxemburg Special Funds, G-REITs 鈥� a structural comparison for the foreign investor is provided by Thomas G眉tle
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MagazineVastly varied
Urbanisation, rising home ownership and ageing populations are strong themes across much of Asia. Another is the huge diversity of performance across the markets of this huge and eclectic continent. These are among the findings of the RICS鈥檚 first annual Asian housing market review as Stephen Brown reports
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MagazineEmerging opportunities
Parts of Asia, particularly at the more developed end, have been hit hard by the downturn. Elsewhere, the economic turmoil is throwing up new possibilities, as Kristen Paech reports
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MagazineHealth-giving properties
In a downturn the secure income of healthcare makes it an attractive option for investors but beware political risk, as Christine Senior reports
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Crisis of confidence
The Pension Fund Real Estate Association鈥檚 18th Annual Plan Sponsor Conference, held in Chicago, could not have taken place at a more uncertain time. Richard Lowe reports from what felt like the eye of the storm
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In perspective
Understanding the unpredictability of the future is as important as learning from the past when facing global market upheaval. This was one of the messages at this year鈥檚 annual EPRA conference.
