Asia-Pacific

ESG and succession planning are growing in importance, say Hodes Weill & Associates partners Susan Swanezy and Stuart Baldwin.

South Korean investors’ demand for US real estate debt remains robust, but there is a change in the type of preferred debt products.

The chief executive of AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has risen to the top by taking on one entrepreneurial challenge after another.

The Sydney-headquartered logistics specialist sought a new shareholder more than a year ago, but never originally intended to sell a majority stake. Then ARA showed up.

The ‘thoroughfare of China’ is now known internationally as the birthplace of an epidemic that has now infected more than 120,000 worldwide.

The Munich-based insurance powerhouse is moving its Allianz Real Estate platform into its PIMCO asset management business.

Recruiting at the junior levels is becoming a more expensive game to play for the sector’s managers.

Korean investors’ increase in outbound investing, growing appetite among Asian investors for alternative real estate and Paris replacing London were the notable trends from the broker’s annual research.

Falling rates can boost real estate in the short term. But institutional capital has reason to worry about a lower-for-longer environment.

The Chinese real estate developer is understood to be in talks with three potential institutional investors ahead of a final close.