ACC Eyes PPPs to Match Long Term Liabilities Asset Owners, Infrastructure, Insurance, Pacific Region, Real Estate Being faced with long-term claims, New Zealand’s ACC has invested in infrastructure and property, including public private partnerships and, more recently, social infrastructure investments, to match its liabilities Read More
Super Funds Embrace Logistics For The Long Haul Asset Owners, Real Estate Although Australia’s logistics sector is undoubtedly at the top of the cycle, superannuation dollars continue to flow into industrial assets Read More
HESTA Expands Build-to-rent (BTR) Model Asset Owners, Real Estate Barring the overriding criteria of returns, HESTA looks to housing for what it sees as secondary benefits for members and the wider community. Read More
Bouwinvest Bets on Living Sector Asset Owners, Real Estate Over the next 12 to 24 months, Bouwinvest, the Amsterdam-based real estate investment manager acting on behalf of Dutch pension funds, expects to deploy up to a further A$1 billion in Asia-Pacific. Bouwinvest’s Asia-Pacific portfolio, which is managed on behalf of Dutch pension fund bpfBOUW, is valued at around A$2.5 billion, but it has the […] Read More
NZ Super Invests in Logistics and Data Centres Asset Owners, Real Estate The past three years have seen New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund invest in logistics and data centres in Asia-Pacific – and in grocery retail and residential in Europe and the United States Read More
Crunch Time for Commercial Property Borrowers Real Estate With many commercial real estate loans needing to be refinanced over the next two years, property owners are faced with a widening funding gap, Florence Chong writes Read More
Traps for the Unwary in Green Infrastructure Infrastructure Although acknowledging need for low carbon solutions and the energy transition, Frontier Advisors’ Manish Rastogi cautions investors to be wary of the sustainability of business models of some new-generation infrastructure assets because they have yet to be fully proven Read More
Bouwinvest to Overweight Living and Logistics Sectors Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Dutch investor Bouwinvest has operated from Australia since the late 2010s. Florence Chong speaks with Sydney-based Robert Koot about the broader APAC strategy Read More
Jury Still Out On Office Valuations Real Estate The jury is still out on whether office real estate prices will stablise, Florence Chong writes Read More