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Markets in Focus: Half-Time – Keeping it Real and Defensive
Jun 30, 2022 Waman Virgaonkar, Hitendra D VarsaniIt was a challenging market environment in the second quarter. We take a closer look at real assets, defensive sectors and factor indexes as investors navigate what might be a prolonged period of volatility and uncertainty.

Carbon Markets: An Emerging Derivatives Class
Jun 28, 2022 Hitendra D Varsani, Rohit GuptaCarbon markets can play a significant role in managing carbon risk within equity portfolios to hedge against price risks. Our research focuses on applications, carbon-risk management and correlations to other assets classes.

The Signal for Industrial Property Amid E-Commerce Noise
Jun 7, 2022 Jim CostelloDemand and pricing for industrial commercial property got a boost from spiking e-commerce demand during the early part of the pandemic. We look at the longer-term trends in e-commerce sales for guidance.

Real Estate Has Bucked the Deglobalization Trend
May 27, 2022 Oleg Ruban, Bryan ReidReal estate investors have historically exhibited a strong home bias. But there is evidence that real estate may have become more global based on return and transaction behavior — bucking the trend, evident in listed markets, toward deglobalization.


Real Estate's Income Risk in an Inflationary World
Apr 27, 2022 Fritz LouwAlthough real estate income returns have tended to be stable in aggregate, the right-hand chart below illustrates the extent to which they have varied across individual properties in the MSCI Pan-European Quarterly Property Fund Index (PEPFI).

Understanding Private Capital’s Exposure to Carbon-Intensive Sectors
Apr 7, 2022 Rumi Mahmood, Abdulla ZaidUnderstanding private capital’s exposure to the energy, materials and utilities sectors, and their related industries, across asset classes, may be critical in supporting more-informed risk management and engagement decisions.

What Drove 2021 Real Estate Returns?
Mar 25, 2022 Niel Harmse, Will RobsonAs 2021 real estate index returns roll in, we’ve seen a broad-based acceleration of returns across nearly all countries and property types. But what can looking beyond the aggregate index returns tell us about the difference between the winners and losers?
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