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Property fund managers are currently under significant pressure. The current higher interest rate environment, sustainability necessities and the macro and micro impact of technology have all delivered challenges. More fundamentally, their core business has shifted, and it is not obvious that they...
The powerful and prestigious Federal Reserve is having a tough year in 2022 in at least three ways: It has failed with inflation forecasting and performance;It has giant...
It’s time to prepare for the near future. As the world slowly and unevenly emerges from the two years of pandemic lockdowns, we are entering a new normal that is increasingly...
We’re in the middle of a remote working revolution. In the UK, though remote working was slowly growing before the pandemic, in 2020 the number of people working from home...
The radical history of Australia’s property market. Skyrocketing property prices and an impossible rental market have seen growing numbers of Australians struggling to find...
We continue with the next instalment in the series on Nobel laureate authors, some of whom may not stand the test of time. In terms of sheer volume, it is hard to beat...
They’re all under one roof. Who sets the price? Historically, the real estate sector, and in particular the listed real estate, was regarded as a single asset class and...
The failure of generations to capture the skills and knowledge of our elders. In a couple of previous articles, I have developed a theme of getting old and how, in business (and...
Amid the challenges posed by Russia’s war against Ukraine and China’s increasing assertiveness in Asia, the G7 met in Europe. Most of the hard work was completed by staff before...
In February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the public would have to get used to “living with COVID”, and announced the phasing out of all Covid-related restrictions over the...