Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific

February 2012: Vol. 4 No. 2

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Asia Pacific

Risky Business: Are There New Ways of Looking at Risk?

Risk and volatility were the words most often heard and discussed by investors in 2011, and looking at the first month of 2012, it appears that this year will be as volatile and filled with risk as was 2011. Since the collapse of Lehman Bros. in 2008, market practitioners and academicians have been trying to understand what went wrong and how to protect us in the next financial crisis. Very important lessons have been learned, and many established theories and assumptions have been revisited and challenged.

Asia Pacific

Keep Your Powder Dry: The Euro Zone Crisis Will Undoubtedly Affect Real Estate Investment Strategy, but Will Also Provide Opportunities

One year ago, in the December 2010 issue of The Letter – Europe, we described the unraveling of the global financial bubble of 2001–2007 as follows: “2008 was the year of the Banking Collapse. 2009 was the year of the Great Recession. 2010 was the year of the Government-Sponsored Recovery. 2011 is likely to be the year of Facing Consequences.” And, boy, was that proved to be the case! We saw Greece declared effectively bankrupt in May; speculative attacks on euro zone banks in August; the fall of the Greek and Italian governments in November; a U.S.-dollar liquidity squeeze throughout the second half of the year; and we still don’t have a credible plan to rescue the euro zone from its fiscal crisis.

Asia Pacific

Shop Talk: A Conversation with Jeremy Stewardson

Jeremy Stewardson is executive director of the Asian Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV). In November 2011, ANREV held its annual conference in Singapore, where findings were first presented from the organization’s development of the first Asian property fund index. Alex Eidlin, managing director – Asia Pacific for Institutional Real Estate, Inc., spoke with Stewardson not long after the conclusion of the event to discuss ANREV’s purpose, the conference and what the new Asian Index will mean for investors.

Asia Pacific

The Contagion Effect: Will Major Problems Plaguing Europe and the United States Infect Asia Pacific Property Markets?

Ongoing sovereign debt issues in Europe and the United States continue to threaten global financial security and growth.  With a recession in Europe seemingly inevitable and the U.S. economy still fragile and barely growing, Asia Pacific property market investors have cause for alarm.  In this global economy, what contagion effect might be in store for them in 2012 and beyond?

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