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At AlbaCore, we focus on the long-term. As one of Europe’s leading alternative credit specialists, we invest in private capital solutions, opportunistic and dislocated credit and structured products.
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Our philosophy is very simple. We are constantly searching for high quality businesses and when we acquire them, we will work relentlessly with them to create long-term sustainable value through innovation, ESG-led and proactive asset management.
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Stewart Investors manage investment portfolios on behalf of our clients over the long term and have held shares in some companies for over 20 years. They launched their first investment strategy in 1988.
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We believe that property fundamentals are largely driven by local property factors and have team members located in Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.
What should investors be focussing on within the global property sector, particularly in a post-COVID world?
Investing with regard to environmental, social and governance considerations is not new to us. On environmental, it's imperative that real estate leads the way.
Our Head of Global Property Securities, Stephen Hayes, introduces the strategy and tells us more on how the strategy is predominantly invested in residential assets and logistics assets. Both of those two asset types make up over 50% of the portfolio.
Watch our Head of Global Property Securities, Stephen Hayes, discuss the key characteristics of the strategy, characterised by investments in high quality real estate within the world’s most bustling cities.
Our Head of Global Property Securities, Stephen Hayes discusses how the team are positioning the portfolio post-COVID.
Consider listing property as part of real asset portfolios for long-term returns, liquidity, and inflationary hedge. This article explores these factors and emphasizes the investment potential of listed property as a complement to real asset portfolios.
There were a number of structural trends leading up to the Covid pandemic that were all very well understood. And the pandemic has given rise to some newer emerging trends. And what is central to the majority of these trends is the rapid advancement and continued adoption of technology which is driving societal change.
Tap into a relatively stable investments in real assets, infrastructure, property and essential services we all rely upon
We invest into high quality urban infill assets in high barrier to entry markets in the world’s most bustling cities through a highly diversified portfolio of listed REITs and property focused companies.
Global Property Securities - US resi 2.0: The expanding renter opportunity | First Sentier Investors
As the renter market in the United States continues to grow, so does the opportunity for investors in a certain type of Real Estate Investment Trust.
COVID-19 has sent shockwaves through capital markets, and property securities have been no exception. The crisis has plunged the global economy into recession and has given rise to the remote work and learning thematic, while seemingly fast-tracking the rise of e-commerce.
Credit portfolios with genuine Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) integration could be a canary in the coal mine for potentially difficult-to-quantify risks and opportunities, including those likely to stem from climate change and the energy transition. While governments globally move at different speeds to put in place net zero policies, ESG-focused credit investors are taking decisive, early action to reflect these factors in their portfolio allocations.
As more carbon emission regulation comes in globally – as we expect it will – Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) with emission reduction plans are likely to be better-placed than their peers as the cost of carbon increases.
Our overarching objective is to deliver real estate-based returns through the cycle while preserving client capital. We invest into high quality urban infill assets in high barrier to entry markets in the world’s most bustling cities through a highly diversified portfolio of listed REITs and property focused companies.
A diverse range of global, regional and sector-based equity, cash and fixed income, infrastructure, property and alternative credit investment strategies and funds.
Achieving net-neutral carbon development within the listed real estate sector requires comprehensive measurement of embodied carbon emissions, the implementation of embodied carbon reduction targets within development programmes and carbon offsets.
Once again, 2021 was a year full of surprises and challenges, with ongoing Covid disruptions and China turning from a global outperformer to underperformer. The Chinese government’s policy crackdowns, especially in the internet, education and property sectors, were sudden and dramatic.
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East Cermak has over 1.1 million square foot of gross lettable area and draws on over 100 megawatts of power from three separate grids. To put its power output in perspective, it’s the equivalent of the amount of power used by 100,000 households.
People are are at the heart of our success as a leading global asset manager
Our investment philosophy is to back owners and managers with whom we feel strongly aligned. These owners typically have track records of treating all stakeholders fairly, in both good and bad times.
First Sentier Investors are the world-leading provider of specialist investment capabilities. Discover how we provide research-led active investment management.
Demand has remained strong across airports and toll roads globally. This strong demand seems somewhat counter-intuitive to the uncertain economic outlook and significant cost of living pressures throughout the world.
Global asset management group focused on providing high quality, long-term investment capabilities to clients. We bring together independent teams of active, specialist investors who share a common commitment to responsible investment principles.
First Sentier Investors, a leading global investment manager is pleased to announce the appointment of Adele Swan as the new Chief People and Culture Officer, effective 24 June. Ms Swan is based in Edinburgh, reporting to the CEO, Mark Steinberg.
First Sentier Investors, a leading global investment manager, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Downing as the new Head of Distribution in EMEA, as the business continues to strengthen its global distribution team.
First Sentier Investors is pleased to announce two key leadership appointments, effective 1 January 2025. Harry Moore is appointed to the newly created role of Chief Commercial Officer; and Lauren Prendiville is appointed as the new Global Head of Distribution and Marketing.
2024 was a year marked by global inflation and economic growth concerns against a backdrop of worldwide elections. As we head into 2025, volatility will remain an enduring constant.
Liquid real asset strategies seek to provide investors with high income, low volatility, reduced correlations and improved diversification. American Listed Infrastructure (ALI) is a new, regionally focused liquid real asset strategy. The following research paper examines ALI’s attributes relative to existing United States-focused liquid real assets: MLPs, REITs and utility funds.
First Sentier Investors, a leading global investment manager, today announces that it is setting its first nature targets as a Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Adopter, in the lead up to the inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit hosted in Sydney this week.
Global listed infrastructure companies outperformed both global equities and bonds in 2022. We believe the financial and economic factors contributing to this outperformance may remain in play in 2023.
2024 was a good year for global listed infrastructure. Strong earnings for energy midstream and a step-change in the earnings growth outlook for utilities helped the asset class to shrug off rising bond yields and political uncertainty.
American Listed Infrastructure (ALI) has seen a significant increase in Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity. Private market and foreign corporate buyers are paying premiums of 25% to listed markets, often for non-controlling stakes. This M&A illustrates the intrinsic value available to investors in the ALI asset class. We expect M&A will continue for a number of years. This will deleverage balance sheets, reduce equity needs and recycle capital from non-core to core activities, thereby raising the quality of the ALI asset class.
In parts of the world where COVID-19 is more under control, activity is returning to normal, particularly in toll roads and freight rail. Work-from-home is happening but with limited impact on road traffic. Airport passenger numbers are climbing especially as vaccines are delivered.
Nature and biodiversity are quickly becoming an important agenda item for policymakers, businesses and capital markets.
In September 2023, I met more than 30 global listed infrastructure companies and stakeholders from the UK, Europe and China. The following travel diary summarises my impressions and findings from these meetings.
2021 will be a year of recovery. This is not surprising given last year’s economic downturn. If vaccines are being rolled out gradually during the year, we believe the economy will recover, especially those sectors that have been hit hard like travel. Hong Kong’s travel sector declined by 99.9% last year so there really isn’t much room left to decline.
Though Covid hasn’t yet finished with us, the markets have finished with Covid. In real life, there is still plenty of misery to go around, but things have seldom been better for investors. Optimism has served us well, as the money printing presses have rolled to counter the “unprecedented” threat. In investment, perhaps it is better to be a stupid optimist than a clever pessimist. And, markets do indeed go up most of the time.
FSSA Investment Managers, Indian equities, Road to Recovery
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